Tesla CEO Confirms She Had Difficult Conversations About Elon Musk’s Unexpected Social Media Posts
Tesla President Robyn Denholm joked that she wished Twitter, now X, didn’t exist.
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk’s posts on the platform have gotten him into trouble in the past.
Denholm admitted to the FT that she had “difficult conversations” with Musk about his posts.
Elon Musk’s social media posts have often gotten her in trouble — and the Tesla chairman admitted they sometimes catch her off guard, too.
Robyn Denholm, chairman of Tesla’s board of directors, admitted to the Financial Times that she had “difficult conversations” with CEO Elon Musk about his social media posts and said that if she did not meant that at his head, Twitter, now X, would not exist.
“If I had a magic wand, Twitter wouldn’t exist,” Denholm said.
Musk bought the social media site in 2022, and his posting style has long sparked controversy – but Denholm defended the billionaire, describing him as a “contrarian” from whom one should expect a some controversy.
“He’s contrarian, and you can’t be contrarian some of the time, so you have to work with that as a board,” she said.
“I might wake up in the morning and read a tweet that I didn’t expect. I don’t wake up to a change in strategy that we haven’t talked about,” Denholm added.
Denholm became chairman of Tesla in 2018 after Musk resigned following a settlement with the SEC over the billionaire’s infamous “guaranteed funding” tweet.
Musk’s statement that he had secured financing to take Tesla private at $420 per share cost him $20 million in fines and imposed a “Twitter sitter”, a corporate lawyer who must verify all messages on Tesla before sending them.
Since then, Musk has continued to stir controversy with his social media activity, drawing criticism last year when he called an anti-Semitic post the “real truth” – a move that sparked backlash from from some Tesla investors.
Tesla is currently trying to get shareholders to vote to reapprove Musk’s $55 billion pay package after his ambitious 2018 pay deal was overturned by a Delaware judge earlier this year.
The automaker is pushing hard to pass the bill, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that Sydney-based Denholm plans to travel the world to persuade shareholders to vote.
Denholm told the FT that Tesla faced a “huge hill to climb” in getting the compensation package approved, having previously called Musk’s $55 billion salary “critical to Tesla’s future success”.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment made outside of normal business hours.
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