Perspective: The unbearable lightness of Elon Musk’s texts
In one text thread with Musk, Oracle founder Larry Ellison expressed interest in being part of a Twitter take-private deal.Ellison texted back: “A billion...or whatever you recommend.”This ellipsis is a casual piece of grammar. It is used as you might use an ellipsis when haggling with a dude on Craisglist about the price of his used NordicTrack and you’re still fifteen bucks apart.To which Ellison replied a few days later, “Since you think I should come in for at least $2b...I’m in for $2b.
At one point an acquaintance of Musk’s suggests that he knows another guy who is interested in buying Twitter, Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX.“Depends on how you define ‘huge’!” the acquaintance replies. “he’s worth $24B and his early employees bump that to $30b. I asked about how much he could in principle contribute and he said “∼1-3b would be easy ∼$3-8b I could do ∼$8-15b is maybe possible but would require financing.
“Why don’t you buy Twitter,” German businessman Mathias Döpfner had suggested to Musk back in March, in much the same way that a mother might suggest her bored children go play outside. “Will be fun.” I said “gentlemen,” which is not entirely fair. A handful of women show up in these texts: Larry Ellison’s assistant. A person named Martha, whose last name is blacked out but who appears to work for Twitter. Gayle King repeatedly pops in to ask Musk for a sit-down interview, a request that he seems to mostly to ignore.
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