China News Agency, San Francisco, February 15th. According to US media reports, on the 15th local time, Elon Musk attended the World Government Summit in Dubai and said that he may step down as CEO of Twitter by the end of this year.
The US Consumer News and Business Channel reported that Musk said at the summit in a video call: "I think the end of this year will be the right time to find someone else to run Twitter." The reason he gave was that the company " should be stable."
Musk said he needed to stabilize Twitter, make sure the company was in a healthy financial position and that its product roadmap was clearly designed.
At the end of October 2022, Musk completed the acquisition of Twitter for US$44 billion, and immediately dismissed the company's CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Siegel, and director of legal affairs and policy. Jaya Gad and Chief Counsel Sean Eget.
Musk later became the company's CEO.
Less than two months after taking over Twitter, Musk launched an online vote for netizens to decide whether he should step down as the company's chief executive.
More than 17.5 million Twitter users participated in the vote, and 57.5% of them believed that Musk should step down.
Musk immediately stated that he would resign as Twitter CEO once a suitable candidate was found.
After that, he will only be in charge of the company's software and server teams.
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