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On Thursday, I got up early. I made muffins for my son, had a couple cups of coffee,

and I was having a quiet domestic morning. And then, at 7.23 a.m., Elon Musk tweeted.

It was one line, no punctuation even. It said, I made an offer. And there was a link to the securities filing where Musk proposed

buying Twitter and taking it private. So I scrapped the workday I had planned and got Felix Salmon on the line.

Felix is the host of Slate Money and he's the chief financial correspondent at Axios.

Hello, Felix Salmon.

Good morning, Lizzie O'Leary.

Welcome to all Elon all the time.

We thought we could get away from him, but we were wrong.

Our show last Friday was all about Elon Musk buying a roughly 9% stake in Twitter,

and maybe joining the company's board.

After that show aired, Twitter's CEO, Paragagrawal, announced in a note to his employees that no, Musk would not be joining the board after all. The note ended by saying,

there will be distractions ahead, but our goals and priorities remain unchanged.

This is the worst-case distraction for Paragagrawal and anyone trying to concentrate on doing their jobs at Twitter,

because this is the mother of all distractions.

You know, I admit at the time I was skeptical of the scenario of Elon Musk

attempting to buy the whole company. You were not. You said something very prescient last week,

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