Jim Murray

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The Musk Report Vol1

The Musk Report Vol1

~The Musk Report-

Scrutinizing the Inscrutable

By now everybody knows who Elon Musk is, and not just
because he is in the process of buying Twitter

He's a pretty famous rich guy who got the electric vehicle
business going full tilt, who has about a zillion satellites

up there keeping a close eye on us and who is drilling big
holes into the earth so people can drive their freakin’ Teslas
around in them

He's a capitalist, an opportunist, a rich guy, and about as
free a free thinker as you can get for a rich guy/opportun-
ist/ capitalist

I have to think he’s also a bit of an egotist, since he's not
one of these shy, retiring, behind-the-scenes billionaires.
But if nothing else, he’s interesting. And he’s actually worth
writing about from time to time

Like today, when he got the first taste of what owning Twitter
was gonna be like as the US Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), gave him a pretty emphatic warning
that any tweets he does regarding Tesla need to be cleared
by them, because they don’t want him using his social
media influence to manipulate the Tesla stock price. Not
that the thought of that ever crossed his mind.

So much for all his free speech palaver. Anyway, he’s just
gettin’ started. Should be more fun than a barrel of mon-
keys. Oh wait, that's Twitter. So more fun than a barrel of
tweeters.

PS I'm not a regular tweet twit myself but | guess I'll have to
become one just to keep an eye on this dude.
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