Twitter Board Not Representing Shareholders: Elon Musk

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Elon Musk said Saturday that the Twitter Inc. board of directors is not representing the interest of its shareholders.

โ€œWow, with Jack departing, the Twitter board collectively owns almost no shares! Objectively, their economic interests are simply not aligned with shareholders,โ€ he replied to a post showing a chart of the ownership percentages of Twitter board members.

The chart shows most members of the board own less than 0.005 percent of the companyโ€™s shares.

Based on Twitterโ€™s latest filing with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the 14 executive officers and directors own 2.7 percent of the companyโ€™s share. Of the 2.7 percent, Jack Dorsey, the CEO turned board chair owns 2.4 percent and the others own only 0.3 percent.

Dorsey, the co-founder, former CEO, and current board chair of Twitter, jumped into the discussion and indicated that the board was designed to restrict the ownership of board members when he joined the board in 2008.

โ€œWhen I was fired in 2008 and made chair, the board took most of my shares away from me. I also gave 1% of the company back to the employee pool in 2015. So ended up with very little of company,โ€ he replied.

Dorsey announced in November 2021 that he stepped down as CEO of Twitter and will leave the board after his current term expires at the 2022 meeting of stockholders.

The Epoch Times reached out to Twitter for comment.

Twitterโ€™s board of directors on Friday approved a provision known in the financial world as a โ€œpoison pillโ€ to ward off Muskโ€™s potential hostile takeover after the latter announced heโ€™s intended to buy the company at the price of $43 billion.

Under the approved provision, if any entity, person, or group acquires 15 percent or more of Twitterโ€™s outstanding stock in a transaction not approved by the board, other stockholders will be able to buy additional shares of common stock at a lower price.

By Allen Zhong

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