Musk reminds me of two quotes from movies I like. Patch Adams and The Social Network. I’ll try to paraphrase here:

“…you think you have to be a prick to get things done and that you actually think that’s a new idea.”

“You are not an asshole. You’re just trying so hard to be”

The richest person in the world dunks on someone else for being ‘independently wealthy.’

Anyone else have ‘Elon fatigue’?

It is reported that this employee's contract is meant to pay him, by means of his salary, for an acquisition. That may have been a bad way to structure the acquisition, but abrogating this agreement has much more liability associated with it than, say, stiffing the janitors. Not having paid in full for the acquired company, Twitter might not have the right to use acquired assets.

Elon shoots from the hip and jeopardizes Twitter's right to use not-fully-acquired IP. If there was anything stupider than "we changed an API and, shucks, stuff broke" this would be it.