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Fortune
Kylie Robison

Can Linda Yaccorino keep Elon Musk on a tight enough leash to succeed?

(Credit: Background Illustration by Fortune; Musk: Justin Sullivan—Getty Images; Yaccarino: Santiago Felipe—Getty Images)

Six months into the dumpster fire of Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter, in which the social media company has lost more than $20 billion in value, some are hailing the appointment of new CEO Linda Yaccarino as the billionaire’s last best hope of salvaging this misadventure.

“If I were a stockholder in Twitter, and I were gonna sell my stock yesterday, I would keep it today based on the fact that Linda went there,” a media industry insider who has worked with Yaccarino for several years told Fortune.

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