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The end of the reign of the CEO

Matthew Lynn

City columnist

They don’t agree on who should and should not be allowed to tweet. They don’t see eye to eye on how the social-media platform should monetise its few hundred million users. Nor do they have much common ground on how a business should finance itself. There is, however, one point on which Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and its likely new owner Elon Musk are united. The CEO is no longer necessary.

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