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Musk says he expects to find a new Twitter CEO “over time”

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By MICHELLE CHAPMAN
AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk, who just took over as the chief executive at Twitter after buying the company, says he does not want to be the CEO of any company. Musk took the witness stand Wednesday in a Delaware court to defend himself in a shareholder lawsuit challenging a compensation package he was awarded by Tesla’s board of directors that is potentially worth more than $55 billion. While testifying, Musk said “I expect to reduce my time at Twitter and find somebody else to run Twitter over time. Musk sent an email to Twitter employees earlier telling them that they must be ” extremely hardcore” to build “a breakthrough Twitter 2.0” He said anyone who cannot keep up can resign.

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