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Musk Pushes Twitter CEO Appointment to Late 2023

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Becky Peterson
· · Source: The Information

Elon Musk won’t appoint a new CEO for Twitter until at least the end of 2023, the billionaire said Wednesday at the Dubai World Government Summit. It’s the most specific time frame Musk has given since December when Musk announced he would step down from the social media site following a poll that found Twitter users supported his resignation. “I think I need to stabilize the organization and...

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In late September 2022, Ryan Crownholm, a 46-year-old entrepreneur from Los Angeles, donned a pair of plush surgical scrubs and hopped onto a stainless-steel MRI table at Prenuvo, a fast-growing chain of body-scanning clinics. Crownholm, the founder of landscaping service DirtMatch, was undergoing an elective MRI, which cost him $2,500 and would generate a full 20-page set of diagnostics about...
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