The Musk Reckoning

Elon Musk
Elon Musk, C.E.O. of Tesla. Photo: Suzanne Cordeiro/Getty
William D. Cohan
July 10, 2022

A longtime Wall Street banker friend wrote to me on Friday night, after the news that Elon Musk had finally pulled the plug on his $44 billion all-cash deal to buy Twitter, to express his distaste for the whole 10-week spectacle. “This is like watching a train wreck in slow motion,” he wrote. “What a clown.”