Renting would be a better analogy... Anyway; I am not an expert, but being on the board of director of a company come with specific responsibilities, like an o

Renting would be a better analogy... Anyway; I am not an expert, but being on the board of director of a company come with specific responsibilities, like an obligation not to trash talk the company in public forums. From an external point of view it looks like Elon might prefer the stick to the carrot in relation to changing how twitter works. Both Elon and the CEO know this but the board all but must offer a seat to the biggest shareholder. So the best thing happened for everyone, Elon was blessed with acceptance and the board did not gain a member prone to PR chaos.