Musk rejects apology advice after 'pedo guy' tweet

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: July 17, 2018
To:: Sam Teller

Partial text. Only these passages were published; [...] marks a gap.

After sleeping on this, I'm not happy about the suggested approach. It would have been particularly foolish and craven of my to do it last night, right after a share drop, as my apology would simply have been dismissed as a disingenuous and cowardly attempt to restore the stock price.

About this email

Musk tells his chief of staff he is unhappy with the proposed apology, saying that apologising right after a share-price drop would have looked like a cowardly attempt to restore the stock.

Notes

Quoted in Plaintiff's Additional Material Fact 5, citing Wilson Decl. Ex. 16; the filing may not reproduce the whole email. 'craven of my' is as printed. Musk tweeted an apology the next day, July 18, 2018.

Where it came from

Court record; attribution confirmed.

Unsworth v. Musk (C.D. Cal. 2:18-cv-08048), Plaintiff's Statement of Genuine Disputes, Dkt. 76 (via CourtListener/RECAP)

Personal, executive & internal. Tags: unsworth-case, pedo-guy, apology, sam-teller, stock-price

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