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A Method to Musk’s Madness

Tesla shareholders should think hard before denying their visionary CEO what he asks, only to let activists possibly dominate down the road.
A Method to Musk’s Madness
X CEO Elon Musk leaves a U.S. Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forum at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Sept. 13, 2023. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
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World’s richest billionaire and Twitter/X impresario Elon Musk threatened to slam on the brakes on his corporate lovechild, the electric vehicle pioneer Tesla, unless he was given a much bigger stake in the control he sold off to be able to buy the social media giant. That elicited the charge from big Tesla investor Ross Gerber of Gerber Kawasaki that Mr. Musk was “delusional,” since he still “fully controls the board.”
Thomas McArdle
Thomas McArdle
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Thomas McArdle was a White House speechwriter for President George W. Bush and writes for IssuesInsights.com
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