Les textes d'Elon Musk avec Jack Dorsey et Parag Agrawal détaillent les négociations tumultueuses sur Twitter

A tranche of Elon Musk’s private messages have been made public as part of his ongoing lawsuit with Twitter. The messages, revealed in a Thursday, shed new light on Musk’s behind-the-scenes negotiations with Twitter’s leadership, as well discussions with former CEO Jack Dorsey, and how Musk’s talks with CEO Parag Agrawal quickly soured.

The messages include the moment Musk tells Agrawal he wants to acquire Twitter and take it private, rather than join the board. Agrawal confronts Musk about an April 9th questioning if “Twitter is dying.”

Agrawal writes to Musk:

You are free to tweet “is Twitter dying?” or anything else about Twitter – but it’s my responsibility to tell you that it’s not helping me make Twitter better in the current context. Next time we speak, I’d like to you provide you [sic] perspective on the level of the internal distraction right now and how it [sic] hurting our ability to do work. I hope the AMA will help people get to know you, to understand why you believe in Twitter, and to trust you – and I’d like the company to get to a place where we are more resilient and don’t get distracted but we aren't there right now.

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Musk a répondu moins d'une minute plus tard. « Qu'avez-vous fait cette semaine ? Je ne rejoins pas le conseil. C'est une perte de temps. Fera une offre pour rendre Twitter privé.

Twitter board chair Bret Taylor followed up with Musk a few minutes later asking to talk. “Fixing Twitter by chatting with Parag won’t work,” Musk tells Taylor. “Drastic action is needed. This is hard to do as a public company, as purging fake users will make the numbers look terrible, so restructuring should be done as a private company. This is Jack’s opinion too.”

The messages also provide a glimpse into the relationship between Dorsey and Musk. Dorsey has that “Elon is the singular solution I trust,” but hasn’t publicly commented since Musk sued in an attempt to renege on the acquisition.

But in the newly released messages, it’s clear Dorsey has wanted Musk to take on an active role at Twitter for some time. Dorsey tells Musk that he wanted him to join Twitter’s board of directors long before Musk acquired a large stake in the company.

«À l'époque où nous avons fait venir l'activiste, j'ai fait de mon mieux pour vous faire participer à notre conseil d'administration et notre conseil d'administration a dit non. C'est à peu près à ce moment-là que j'ai décidé que je devais travailler pour partir, aussi difficile que cela ait été pour moi », dit Dorsey. "Je pense que la principale raison est que le conseil d'administration est tout simplement très opposé au risque et a vu votre ajout comme plus de risque, ce que je pensais être complètement stupide et rétrograde, mais je n'avais qu'un seul vote, et 3 % de la société, et aucune action à double classe. Mise en place difficile. Nous pouvons discuter davantage.

Dorsey seemed to be referring to the activist investor that attempted Dorsey in early 2020.

Notably, this conversation occurred in late March, after Musk had a multibillion-dollar stake in Twitter, but before his stake had been made . He and Dorsey also discussed the Twitter cofounder’s belief that Twitter “can’t be a company.”

Dorsey writes to Musk:

Je crois que ce doit être un protocole open source, financé par une sorte de fondation qui ne possède pas le protocole, ne fait que le faire progresser. Un peu comme ce qu'a fait Signal. Il ne peut pas avoir de modèle publicitaire. Sinon, vous avez une surface que les gouvernements et les annonceurs essaieront d'influencer et de contrôler. S'il a une entité centralisée derrière lui, il sera attaqué. Ce n'est pas un travail compliqué, il suffit de le faire correctement pour qu'il résiste à ce qui est arrivé à Twitter.

Musk responds that the idea is “super interesting” and that “it’s worth both trying to move Twitter in a better direction and doing something new that’s decentralized.”

The following month, Dorsey also attempted to play mediator between Musk and Agrawal, at one point arranging a call between the three of them. “You and I are in complete agreement,” Musk tells Dorsey. “Parag is just moving far too slowly and trying to please people who will not be happy no matter what he does.”

“At least it became clear that you can’t work together,” Dorsey later responds. “That was clarifying.”