Comment by JimDabell
4 years ago
> he certainly does not love the bad numbers (Tesla stock also went DOWN as well) and that the quite meaningless poll whether he should step down, was not in his favor.
The poll was just for show, and it was in his favour. The plan was always for him to be interim CEO, with reports going back throughout this year all the way to May about this. He keeps doing this – putting up polls where he’s already made the decision and knows the vote will just confirm it. Why do people keep falling for it?
The result of the poll was never meant to change his plans, but I doubt that the fact that majority of people wanted him out didn’t sting his childish thin-skinned ego.
My bet is that he was hoping the poll were overwhelmingly for him staying so that he can then eventually announce how “he must reluctantly step down and that he knows how everyone is disappointed by this terrible turn of events”.
"putting up polls where he’s already made the decision and knows the vote will just confirm it. Why do people keep falling for it? "
Except that he did comment those other staged polls with "Vox Populi Vox Dei" pretty much right away and put it into action vs. not commenting and no action on this one.
And he said many things, also that there will be no CEO on Twitter at all. But yes, he never intended to remain CEO - otherwise he would have never did the poll in the first place, but he definitely has no clear plan, he drives on sight. (And yes, in either case, he still owns Twitter.)
And "stepping down" translates to asking whether he was running Twitter well. And the people said "no".
Why would he want that?
What would be the benefit, if it was his plan, to make people wanting him go? You really think there is a great plan behind it?
The only vague thing might be to create an image of an reasonable emperor who listen to the people, even if it is unpleasant. But so far he does not really show the grandeur fitting that role.