
Some leaders have been empathizing with Elon Musk’s “hardcore” tactics since he took over Twitter last month. But Bill Gates, cofounder and former CEO of Microsoft, doesn’t count himself among them.
“The Twitter situation is stirring things up,” he told the Financial Times this week in response to a question about whether mending staunch divides would be more of an engineering challenge or an interpersonal challenge. “That, instead of an objective set of measures done by a broad group of people, you’re sort of seeing seat-of-the-pants type activity.”