Elon’s Gamble: Imagining Tesla Stock Judgment Day

Elon Musk
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William D. Cohan
April 27, 2022

Since about midday on Monday, much of the media, along with the extremes of our political spectrum, have been losing their collective lunch over what Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter will mean for Twitter, for open debate, for “free speech,” for Trump and Alex Jones and other disinformation artists, for Bezos and Gates, and so forth and so on. Sure, these are all valid questions pertaining to Musk’s decision to take Twitter private for $44 billion and to becoming its sole owner, at least until he can find some equity partners. But one key constituency has thus far been ignored, and, on some level, it might be the most important: the Tesla shareholders.