Elon Musk gave a wild interview to the New York Times.
It’s over one hour long but I still suggest you watch it, because it’s quite interesting, to say the least.
Everyone’s familiar with Elon Musk. He’s controversial, he can be bombastic at times, and he’s the opposite of corporate.
Most CEOs of his caliber and net worth tend to keep it quiet, keep a low profile. Or at least they try.
Musk doesn’t care, he’s said so many times and it’s unclear why people don’t just believe him when he says he doesn’t care about pleasing shareholders, or advertisers.
I’m not saying that’s a good thing, but you know what you’re buying. I used to own Tesla stock. But then I sold it precisely because I know a Tweet is all it takes for it to tank. And I don’t want that. I’m okay with that volatility with crypto, but not with the stock market. But I digress.
There was one bit of the interview that really cracked me up.
Musk recently tweeted something that was deemed anti-semitic, he then deleted the tweet and apologised, something he hardly ever does, but advertisers, including Disney who as we all know has a bit of… let’s call it marketing problem recently.
When NYT’s Andrew Ross Sorkin asked him about advertisers leaving X, Musk simply said.
“I hope they stop [advertising]. If you’re gonna blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself,” Musk said.
What he said is wild, but the way he said “you’re gonna blackmail me with money” really caught my attention.
There was a badly conceived (or perhaps deliberate) emphasis on two words, “me” and “money”.
And he said like he was meant to be a statement but turned into a question.
It’s a wild thing to say because for most people, money is the be-all and end-all.
It’s the way the world works.
But he’s not in that position.
I’m not trying to defend or praise Musk with this missive. You can hate him or love him. That’s not the point. I’m actually trying to emphasise how fed up I am with people in power acting like they don’t know what reality is.
Put it to you this way.
It doesn’t matter if I like my boss or not, what matters is whether he likes me.
Anybody who thinks differently is a deluded fool, I’m sorry.
So, when it comes to money, the person with the most money has leverage. And in a room with Musk, then that person is always Musk.
And the fact that CEOs of the companies that ‘threatened’ to stop advertising can’t see that is dumb. And I always worry when people in power do dumb things.
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