He let emotion laden political nonsense lead him into making an extraordinarily bad deal. OK. Fine. Not what prudent businessmen would have done, but now he's where he is with the Twitter deal.
So at this point it's all about leading from where you are, and sometimes where you are is in a place where there are zero good options. Every option is terrible, and probably won't work to extricate you from your situation.
But here's the thing, you have to take one of the options because you cannot stay where you are. The one thing you know is that where you are leads to certain death. Go left. Go right. But you can't stay here. That's the situation Elon is in.
I'm not convinced Elon has actually considered all his options. He didn't have the company for any time at all before he start trying desperately to massively change things. Personally I feel like taking a minute or two to figure out the state of things before slashing and burning would be helpful for choosing the right path instead of making moves that get reverted the same day they are implemented.
More or less similar to my view of where he is, although I think I'm a bit less charitably inclined.
Given his priors and the fact that he doesn't understand social media, free speech, moderation or advertising, the only question is if he can control his ego long enough to find someone to run the place before he burns it to the ground, and whether anyone who could save it would trust him enough to take the gig.
I rather doubt that will happen, but maybe. Assuming he hasn't already done too much damage - I'm not sure where that line is, but it seems like we're approaching it rapidly.
He let emotion laden political nonsense lead him into making an extraordinarily bad deal. OK. Fine. Not what prudent businessmen would have done, but now he's where he is with the Twitter deal.
So at this point it's all about leading from where you are, and sometimes where you are is in a place where there are zero good options. Every option is terrible, and probably won't work to extricate you from your situation.
But here's the thing, you have to take one of the options because you cannot stay where you are. The one thing you know is that where you are leads to certain death. Go left. Go right. But you can't stay here. That's the situation Elon is in.