Many people are chewing over the drama surrounding the deal. A cartoon posted by one of the company's own software engineers was one of the most perceptive.
After 14 years at Google, where he used his hobby of drawing cartoons to poke fun at his employer's culture and scandals, he joined the social networking site. A version of the bird logo is depicted in a three panel drawing. It says that Musk's strategy is a model of hypocrisy. You disrupted my operations and trashed me. The angry bird wants to know if you'll agree to adopt him.
The illogical situation that has caught the attention of the world is the subject of the cartoon. In April, Musk signed a deal to buy the company, but this month he announced he was pulling out, saying the company didn't tell him enough about the number of bots on the platform. The lawsuit said Musk should be forced to become the owner of the company because he thought it was an elaborate joke.
It doesn't make sense to demand your boss become your friend. It is possible that the company is storing up trouble. Things will be awkward if they force Musk to take over.
Paul Fisher is a professor of negotiation at Oxford University's Sad Business School. Negotiating teams are advised to try and separate the substance of a discussion from the feelings of the people they are talking to. This doesn't seem to have happened and that doesn't bode well for a strong future relationship
Williams is a professor at the University of Iowa. She says that they aren't negotiating for implementation. They have not created a situation that will make it easy for them to work together after this sale ends. Musk said in a court filing last week that the request for a trial in September was unfair because the case was complex. The bot-counting methodology has been defended multiple times.
The deal with Musk is not the first to be complicated. The purchase of Pixar by Disney went through in 2006 despite bad blood between Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
A principal analyst at a Los Angeles investment firm believes that there are four possible outcomes to the dispute between Musk and the social networking site. There is a 20 percent chance that Musk escapes the deal he signed by either paying the $1 billion breakup fee written into it, or winning in Delaware's Chancery Court without paying.
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