- Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has dismissed speculation that he will return to lead the company.
- “No, I will never be CEO again,” Dorsey tweeted on Wednesday.
- Dorsey has been vocal about running Twitter not as a company but as a public good.
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“Nah.”
It was Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s reaction to speculation that he would return to the social media platform after Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company.
YouTuber Charles Wieand on Wednesday tweeted He predicted that Musk would “just ask @Jack to be CEO of Twitter.”
Dorsey replied bluntly: “No, I’ll never be CEO again.”
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Some Twitter users urged him to reconsider, but Dorsey replied with a second “nah,” adding that the company should “roll the dice again” and start anew.
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Users were also curious to know what made the founder a good leader, to which Dorsey replied: “Nobody after all.”
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Dorsey has said on several occasions that he views Twitter as a public good And running it as a corporation is against.
“Theoretically, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company,” Dorsey tweeted last month.
Musk, who also runs Tesla and SpaceX, is in the midst of completing his acquisition of Twitter. The deal is expected to close in October.
In April, Dorsey tweeted that he believed the purchase of billionaire Musk was the “right first step” in correcting Twitter, before adding that Musk was the “singular solution” he wanted to lead the platform. trusted for
Dorsey co-founded Twitter in 2006. He was fired from his role as CEO two years later, but returned to the company again in 2015.
Dorsey then stepped down in November and handed over the reins of the company to software engineer Parag Agarwal. Musk and Agarwal have frequently clashed, with the Tesla CEO regularly ridiculing Agarwal on Twitter. In a securities filing on April 13, Musk said he “doesn’t have confidence in management.”
According to a report from CNBC last week, Musk was reportedly considering becoming the interim CEO of Twitter.
