Elon: if we charge legacy checks for checks while also selling checks to anybody for $8, we will bring in billions of dollars in new revenue
Executive1: brilliant idea, sir!
Executive2: youre a genius!
Elon: wow, I wasn’t sure, but you’re right, I am a genius with great ideas. I made the right decision firing everyone except you guys
Executive1: hahaha omg I just read that meme you tweeted. Perfect comment! The gag reel of King Kong definitely had tons of giant ape dongs, you’re right!
After. The offer wasn’t binding, and it didn’t become binding when the board accepted it. But after that, they quickly finalized and signed a merger agreement. That agreement was binding, subject to certain narrow contingencies, which were what the lawsuit was (notionally) about.
I can’t follow his logic for this checkmark fiasco at all.
At worst he should have kept verified checkmarks and added a new color for the twitter blue (lol at that name) so people could display multiple checkmarks if necessary,
Instead jr has made all checkmarks meaningless and nobody who isn’t insane will pay for it, and if they do they will configure it not to display.