Twitter-owner Musk seeks new CEO, but casts big shadow
Twitter boss Elon Musk is looking for a new CEO, but the winner will have to live in the shadow of the mercurial billionaire, who says the platform avoided certain ruin thanks to his leadership. After days of unusual silence on the matter, Musk on Tuesday finally said that he will stand by a Twitter poll that asked if he should stand down as CEO. In a result that Musk said he would abide by, 57 percent of votes said that he should go. "The question is not finding a CEO, the question is finding a CEO who can keep Twitter alive," Musk tweeted. Exiting day to day operations would allow Musk -- who paid $44 billion for his favorite social platform -- to deflect criticism that he is neglecting his other ventures, especially car company Tesla, which has seen its share price plummet since he took over Twitter. Musk has given few clues to what type of leader he is looking for, saying only that he would limit his own duties to software and server engineering once "someone ...