Elon Musk hasn’t tweeted in 10 days, but his Twitter account is once again news because time is a flat circle.
This is why we must now scrunch our faces, cock our heads to one side and strain to recall a weed joke shared by the chief executive on August 7, 2018. Otherwise, we’ll never understand why activist investors are shouting for the Securities and Exchange Commission to intervene in Tesla’s shrinking board.
On that fateful day, Musk said he was “considering taking Tesla private at $420” per share and had secured funding to do so. Only, he apparently hadn’t, so the SEC hit Musk with fraud charges over “false and misleading” tweets. Musk and Tesla later reached an agreement to play nice with the agency. It involved some wrist slapping.
As part of the agreement, Musk and Tesla collectively forked over $40 …
