Could one of these individuals be the next “Chief Twit?”
Over the weekend, Twitter CEO Elon Musk posted a poll and promised to abide by its results before warning users they may just get their wish.
Elon Musk asked users a simple question, “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”
If Musk does in fact step down as Twitter's CEO a major question lingers…who will he name as his successor?
According to The Washington Examiner, multiple people in Musk's inner circle could be considered for the role.
David Sacks has been a member of Musk's inner circle since they worked together at PayPal, where Sacks served as the chief operating officer. Sacks has a history of managing social networks. He founded the Clubhouse clone Callin and the enterprise social media app Yammer.
Sacks echoed many of Musk's criticisms of the former Twitter ownership and became a darling with conservatives due to his support for the efforts to recall the left-wing San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
A similarly minded person who has also offered to take over the company is fellow venture capitalist and former technology journalist Jason Calacanis. The Silicon Valley veteran has known Musk for decades and stated his loyalty to Musk in text messages discovered during Twitter's lawsuit to force Musk to acquire the company. Calacanis offered to help run the company in the early days of Musk's operations.
Podcaster Lex Fridman also offered to be Twitter's CEO, stating that he would do it for “no salary” and “focus on great engineering and increasing the amount of love in the world.”
Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion earlier this year.
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