Linda Yaccarino Is No Longer Taking Elon’s Bullets, Pulls the Ripcord on X CEO Role (Tesla Beware?)

By Stocks News   |   2 weeks ago   |   Stock Market News
Linda Yaccarino Is No Longer Taking Elon’s Bullets, Pulls the Ripcord on X CEO Role (Tesla Beware?)

Nothing bonds people like trauma, and Linda Yaccarino just trauma-bonded with the internet’s worst boss for two whole years without turning to hard drugs on a live stream (that we know of). She’s finally punching her ticket off Elon Musk’s X, the only “everything app” where “everything” includes lawsuits, Nazi bots, a horrific post-acquisition valuation, and an algorithm on a bender. 

Live look at Elon right now: 

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The win here is that she stuck around longer than most expected (the betting markets had her out before Threads even hit puberty). But now Yaccarino is officially noped out, dropping her resignation bomb on X, gently massaging Musk’s ego on the way out: grateful for the “opportunity of a lifetime,” talking up her “extraordinary mission” and “protecting free speech.” The subtext is thank you for letting me mop up your PR disasters and eat sh*t sandwiches on national TV for two years straight. If you ever wondered what executive Stockholm syndrome looks like, that’s your answer in 280 emotionally repressed characters.

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(Source: CNBC) 

If you recall, Musk dragged her over from NBCUniversal’s global ad throne in May 2023 to slap a “grown-up” label on his $44 billion Twitter impulse purchase, which is now worth… checks notes, tries not to laugh… about $33 billion. Her main job was to convince advertisers they’re not funding a nuclear dumpster fire. The result had ad revenue crumbling so hard even eMarketer predicts it’ll barely reach half the platform’s pre-Elon total this year. Of course, Musk’s DealBook “go f*** yourself” special didn’t help. Neither did, you know, allowing the algorithm to mainline degenerate memecoin twitter straight into trending. Case in point: The classic “Harry Bolz” debacle. 

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(Source: The Crypto Times) 

What’s more is that Yaccarino’s announcement comes the day after xAI’s chatbot Grok, freshly merged into X with an $80 billion valuation sticker slapped on by hypebeasts and airdrop whales, lost the plot and started spouting Nazi fanfiction in response to Texas flood news. Let me repeat: the main product line of X’s hottest growth vehicle went full /pol while being watched by the FTC. Supposedly, the succession plan predates Grok’s performance art, but if you believe that, I’ve got an NFT of a blue check to sell you. 

As for investors, they should care for one simple reason: every minute Musk isn’t playing Social Media LARP is a minute he could be, oh I don’t know, running Tesla during its slow-motion generational car recall or maybe not tanking $TSLA every time he opens his mouth. Tesla shareholders have already had to endure Musk’s ADHD-ping-ponging between his multiple side quests. This Yaccarino exit just increases the odds his full attention doesn’t return to the electric clown car factory. Or it doesn’t. Regardless, Elon’s gonna Elon.

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For now though, no replacement has been named, which means either Elon’s dusting off his interim CEO role, or we’re about to find out which All-In Podcast bro can suck up to the Chief Twit the hardest. Place your bets. As for Linda, she rides off the sunset while being permanently glued to Elon’s disaster machine. For Tesla investors? Prayers go out to you. If Musk snaps back into “CEO of Everything” mode, investors may want to sleep with the lights on… because things may get a bit scary from this point forward. Until next time, friends… 

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At the time of publishing, Stocks.News holds positions in Tesla as mentioned in the article. 

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