Musk spoke at his first meeting with Twitter employees on a range of topics, including remote work and whether he will become CEO of Twitter. Jim Watson/Getty Images
Elon Musk first addressed Twitter employees in a one-hour meeting on Thursday.
He said he doesn’t care about being CEO of Twitter but expects people to listen to him anyway.
“I just want to make sure the product develops quickly and well,” he added.
In his first meeting with Twitter employees this week, Elon Musk said he doesn’t care about being the company’s CEO.
“There are many responsibilities of being a CEO. And I just want to make sure the product moves quickly and in a good way,” Musk said in a replay of the hour-long meeting, reviewed by Insider.
“I don’t really care about the title. But people have to listen to me,” he added.
The billionaire has expressed a similar philosophy on leadership titles at his companies SpaceX and Tesla. In March 2021, Musk dubbed himself “Techno King” and Chief Financial Officer Zach Kirkhorn “Master of Coin,” official SEC filings show.
“All these other titles are basically just made up,” Musk previously told The Wall Street Journal’s 2021 CEO Council Summit. “So CEO is a made-up title, CFO is a made-up title, General Counsel … They don’t mean anything.”
At SpaceX and Tesla, Musk is more concerned with engineering and production than the administrative and operational responsibilities that typically accompany the CEO title, he explained at Thursday’s Twitter all-hands meeting. If Musk’s deal to buy Twitter goes through, the billionaire wants to focus his attention on the app’s “software and product design.”
“When I say, ‘Hey, we need to improve the product like this and add these features,’ then I expect people to listen to me in that regard,” he told Twitter employees.
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