The world has been able to watch the chaos that ensued after Elon Musk bought Twitter, more or less in real time.
But to understand how and why Musk was able to acquire Twitter in the first place, you have to understand how Jack Dorsey did — and didn't — run Twitter before Musk showed up.
And in Kurt Wagner's new book "Battle for the Bird," we get to see both stories, told by the Bloomberg reporter who covers Twitter. As Wagner tells it, the key thing linking the two chapters is the March 2020 assault on Twitter by activist shareholders at Elliott Management, who argued that Dorsey should be replaced.
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