Musk not the right leader for Twitter: Jack Dorsey

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oi-Prakash KL

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s views on Elon Musk, the current boss of the social media platform, seem to have drastically changed as he has claimed that the tech billionaire has not proved to be the right “steward”.

A year ago, Dorsey had said that Elon was the “singular solution” that he had trusted, but now, he has visibly given a thumbs down to Musk’s leadership.

The former Twitter CEO, who is now associated with Bluesky, a possible Twitter rival. A Bluesky user named Jason Goldman asked whether Musk proved the “best possible steward” to which he said “no.”

“No. Nor do I think he acted right after realizing his timing was bad. Nor do I think the board should have forced the sale. It all went south. But it happened and all we can do now is build something to avoid that ever happening again. So I’m happy Jay and team and nostr devs exist and building it,” Dorsey wrote.

Dorsey, in a follow-up post, claimed that the Tesla boss should have walked away by paying 1 billion dollars to the board. “If Elon or anyone wanted to buy the company, all they had to do was name a price that the board felt was better than what the company could do independently. This is true for every public company. Was I optimistic? Yes. Did I have final say? No. I think he should have walked away and paid the $1b,” the former Twitter boss wrote.

As another user said, “It’s pretty sad how it all went down,” Dorsey replied, “Yes”.

Interestingly, Dorsey had claimed earlier that if the social media platform had to be a company at all, “Elon is the singular solution I trust.”

“In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness,” he said on Twitter in 2022.

He had posted this tweet before Musk had struck the deal.

On the other hand, Musk has been trying to bring a lot of changes to the social media platform. Recently, he did away with free blue ticks given to prominent personalities, organisations, and celebrities along with journalists. He has made it a paid service.

People now have to pay USD 8/month via the web and USD 11/month through in-app payment on iOS and Android for the blue tick mark, which was started 14 years ago.