Elon Musk announced Tuesday that he will step down as CEO of Twitter after two months in the role. Musk posted a poll on his account Sunday asking whether or not he should stay on as CEO and assured that he would heed to the results. There were 17,502,391 people who voted, and the Twitter community had no doubts: 57.5% of voters called for Elon Musk to step down as CEO while just 42.5% wanted him to remain.
However, the owner of the social network did not want to confirm his decision until Tuesday, when he tweeted the following:
I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software & servers teams.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 21, 2022
Musk looking for a replacement?
It is not the first time that the entrepreneur assured that he would not remain as CEO of Twitter. Back in November, Musk stated during a trial in Delaware that his role would be temporary and that he was looking for someone to take over the social network. "I expect to reduce my time at Twitter and find somebody else to run Twitter over time," the entrepreneur said during litigation regarding the salary package Tesla awarded him in 2018.
As reported by David Faber of CNBC, Musk, who acquired the platform for $44 billion in October, was looking for a new CEO for the company "before the Twitter poll was made." Musk himself mocked this report on Twitter, implying that it was not true:
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 20, 2022
