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TGIF: It’s Elon’s World
Elon Musk at the Tesla "Cyber Rodeo" party in Austin, Texas. (Suzanne Cordeiro via Getty Images)
Twitter’s hostile takeover. Plus: the New York subway shooter. Victor Orban’s win. And more.
By Nellie Bowles
04.15.22 — TGIF
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Hello and welcome back. Our podcast-version will return next week, so please just imagine me softly reading you these headlines. TGIF.

→ Elon Musk goes for a Twitter takeover: In the most exciting business news cycle in years, Elon Musk reneged on joining Twitter’s board and now has made an offer to buy the whole company. He wants to buy the whole thing …

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Nellie Bowles
Nellie Bowles is a co-founder for The Free Press and its head of strategy. She was previously a reporter at The New York Times, where she won the Gerald Loeb Award for investigative journalism and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She started her career at her hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle.
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