So, this just happened.
According to anonymous board members, the belief is that Elon Musk is full of shit, unstable, and is only interested in buying Twitter as some kind of mentally unwell revenge play.
After a tense 4-hour meeting yesterday, the board decided to defend the company and its employees (who musk said he’d fir into the sun once he took over) from Musk’s effort to buy and tube the social media platform. They plan on offering discounted stock to existing shareholders as a ‘Poison Pill’ to fight Musk and is he ever gonna be pissed about this one.
Musk failed a routine board member background check last week after purchasing 9.2 percent in Twitter stock so he threw 43 billion at shareholders (50% markup) to poison the process. That’s why I’m shocked that Twitter’s announced they’d defend against Musk’s takeover bid. I can’t imagine Twitter shareholders are too happy about it, TBH.
I remember George Cohon (McDonald’s Canada Founder) telling me a story about his neighbors, once. He said one time he came home from a business mtg and heard his neighbor’s wife yell to her husband “The Jew is home”.
George said he bought the house from them the following week and bulldozed it to the ground.
That’s a revenge play.
Ron Joyce, the founder of Tim Horton’s, once demoed a young man’s Porsche after the young man stole his parking spot and then made fun of Ron’s age.
“You gotta young to do that,” the young man said to Ron.
“You gotta be old and rich to do this” Ron said as he drilled his rented suburban into the dick heads Porsche – MULTIPLE times.
That’s a revenge play.
Elon is just doing what most Silicon Valley bros are doing. showing everyone his dick because he feels he’s earned the right to swing it around. OR, he’s just pissed the background check orgy situation blew up. Either way, Twitter just told him to go fuck himself, and I kind of respect that.
I feel like sending the Twitter board a bunch of these #GFY shirts from Our Store.
Right? I mean, that’s why we made “The #GFY Collection”. For moments like this when you really need to make a statement.
And if Musk doubles his offer, the shirt means #GoodForYou and no harm done.
Musk doesn’t hear “NO” very often and when he does, he flies off the fucking deep end. Like that time he called the man who saved those Thai boys trapped in a cave a pedo for not using Elon’s new personal submarine. So this week should be FUCKING AWESOME.
DB
