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ebingoonline| Tesla chairman complained: I am not Musk's nanny, I wish Twitter didn't exist

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Tesla Chairman Robyn Denholm said in a recent interviewebingoonline, she is used to waking up to seeing unexpected tweets from CEO Elon Musk.

ebingoonline| Tesla chairman complained: I am not Musk's nanny, I wish Twitter didn't exist

"If I had a magic wandebingoonline, Twitter wouldn't exist,"she joked in an interview.

Musk's provocative posts on the social media site he acquired in 2022 and later renamed X put him in trouble with regulators and the government, and caused problems for Tesla's own directors. In January, the billionaire wrote on the platform that Tesla would take "immediate action" to vote on re-registration in Texas. Earlier, a Delaware court ruled that Tesla's record-breaking $56 billion compensation package to Musk was invalid.

That puts the company's board in a tricky position. It must follow appropriate procedures and establish an independent committee to analyze potential moves. Although they ultimately reached the same conclusion, Musk's proactive tweet made it more difficult for them to refute the court's decision that they were "lazy servants of their arrogant masters."

"Will we have difficult conversations about tweets? Of course,"Danholm said in an interview. But she said,"He's a reverse thinker, and you can't be a reverse thinker part of the time, so as the board, you have to work with it... I might wake up in the morning and read an unexpected tweet." But I won't wake up and see a strategic shift that we haven't discussed."

Danholm dismissed claims that her character required her to be Musk's "nanny", saying his actions exceeded her authority.

"For me, the role of the chairman is actually to ensure that the board has a good relationship with the CEO and executive team," she said. We are there on behalf of shareholders to make sure management is doing their job, and their job is mainly to increase shareholder value over time."

Musk has publicly admitted in interviews to taking ketamine and smoking marijuana, and his drug use has sparked controversy. But Danholm said media reports that Musk was also taking LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms at parties, as well as reports that Tesla board members were privately concerned,"are absolute nonsense... I've worked for this company for 10 years and have never seen any evidence."