“That to me is just a clear backstabbing of the board by the founder when they had a deal in hand to come to a standstill,” Goldman said. Goldman said Dorsey’s comments suggest that he was the one who urged Musk to take over the company entirely and take it private. Musk had asked Twitter’s board to convene a meeting, during which Dorsey “shared his personal view that Twitter would be able to better focus on execution as a private company,” according to an SEC filing.įormer Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was accused of “backstabbing” the company’s board of directors. Goldman, who was Twitter’s vice president of product, told Bloomberg that the company’s chairman, Bret Taylor, and CEO Parag Agrawal struck a deal with Musk to bring him on as a director in exchange for his agreeing not to buy up more shares.Īn SEC filing submitted days later revealed that Musk owned a 9.2% stake in Twitter - which at the time was equivalent to 73.4 million shares, the most of any shareholder. Jason Goldman, a former member of the board who was part of Twitter’s founding team more than a decade ago, told Bloomberg News that he believes Dorsey encouraged Musk to buy the company outright after Musk had initially been in talks to merely join the board. Why Elon Musk welcomes a US recession: ‘Bankruptcies need to happen’įormer Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey served the company on a platter to Elon Musk by “backstabbing” the company’s board of directors, one of the social media giant’s co-founders alleged.
SEC probing Elon Musk’s Twitter stake purchaseĮlon Musk trolls AOC on Twitter over her Tesla He is also a writer and resident of New Hope.Musk ally Egon Durban keeps Twitter board seat despite shareholder vote Abueva is a member of the WHYY Community Advisory Board. After the last flag is waved and confetti swept up, we will need to buckle up for what could be a bumpy ride. We must stand up for our lawfully given rights and let our voices be heard.
I do hope that all quarters of my community and our allies show up in full force this Pride season to celebrate our diversity and perseverance, and to support one another.
Pride event organizers in major cities across the country are reckoning with previously held discriminatory stances in an effort to fully embrace a community with members who are marginalized not only from outside but also from within. Philadelphia’s Gayborhood has not been alone in this struggle. Pushback from within the community was broad and swift, in part due to already mounting anger over the high cost of entry into events and a sense of exclusion coming from the group’s leadership, among other issues. PPC, comprised of queer and trans activists, was formed last year after Philly Pride Presents, the organizers of the city’s Pride events for nearly three decades, disbanded following a Facebook post about the Stonewall riots that was seen as racist and transphobic. It will be the inaugural effort of the newly formed PHL Pride Collective (PPC), which is looking to right past wrongs. Philadelphia’s Pride weekend, slated for June 3-5, has an additional layer of anxious expectancy. While these terrifying truths may not cast a pall on Pride celebrations, I suspect they will inspire revelers to shout their opposition to what many view as courts, capitols, and councils gone rogue. » READ MORE: Advocates worry other rights at risk if court overturns Roe Couple this with the wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation bills being signed into law (over 300 filed since the start of 2022 alone), and you have a Category 5 hurricane of civil rights under attack, with its eye moving toward the entire LGBTQ community. Wade authored by Justice Samuel Alito twice refers to the case of Obergefell v. Even Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in the 2015 landmark case that affirmed same-sex marriage throughout the land, expressed concern given that the draft decision on Roe v. Wade be overturned, same-sex marriage is the likely next target for a rollback by the conservative-majority court. Law experts and Democratic lawmakers argue that, should Roe v. Supreme Court draft opinion that would end the constitutional right to abortion is also rattling our community. The anticipation around this event of unity and visibility and others like it will be felt around the country as members of the LGBTQ community and their allies gear up for an exuberant return to regular June Pride Month festivities.īut the recent leak of a U.S. I will join hundreds of others to march from Lambertville, N.J., over the Delaware River into Bucks County. As a resident of New Hope, I am looking forward to the return of PrideFest on May 20-22 after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19.