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IMO only, but it seemed obvious to me he bought Twitter to have a personal, unfiltered, unaccountable platform to pontificate from. The trove of information he
by kjs3 4y ago
IMO only, but it seemed obvious to me he bought Twitter to have a personal, unfiltered, unaccountable platform to pontificate from. The trove of information he now has access to is gravy.
- dragonwriter 4y agoIMO only, but it seemed obvious to me that he bought Twitter because he signed a contract in a mixture of arrogance and bad faith entirely expecting to find be able to use the process to embarrass Twitter on the way to wriggling out of his commitment and then found himself trapped by it while Twitter’s now-former management and owners laughed all the way to the bank.
- kjs3 4y agoI don't think those necessarily are contradictory rationales. With that much hubris being slung around, there's room for any number of reasons, which seemed to have changed over time.
- v0idzer0 4y agoSpeaking of hubris, is it possible there’s tons of non public factors that affected his rationale and we’ll never really know the whole truth?
- mindslight 4y agoBut didn't he forgo many of the standard contingency clauses that he would have been able to use to wiggle out of the deal? I'd say the attitude you're describing seems more like the second chapter of the story, where the first was that he earnestly wanted to aggressively acquire it.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> But didn't he forgo many of the standard contingency clauses that he would have been able to use to wiggle out of the deal? That's the arrogance part, yes.