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Have you found the successor to Twitter CEO? Steve Davis, a confidant of Musk and a loyal 20-year-old employee, is likely to take over. Earlier, the man had slept in the office with his wife and children for two months and was also a super ruthless man who worked 16 hours a day.

Since the result of Musk's Twitter vote on "do you want to resign CEO or not", both the media and the public have been concerned about one question:

Who will take over?

According to foreign media the information, the successor may be a loyal supporter of Musk, CEO of Musk's tunnel digging company The Boring Company, aerospace engineer Steve Davis.

According to The Information, Steve Davis, 43, is a "desperate Saburo" like Musk. He had been sleeping in the office of Twitter headquarters for two months.

And he moved here with his wife, who had just given birth, and their newborn child.

A former Twitter employee told The Information that Steve Davis was one of the first people to spend the night at the company's San Francisco headquarters after Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter on Oct. 27. Since then, he has been one of Musk's most important reliants for managing Twitter.

In the past two months, Davis has acted as an agent for Musk on Twitter.

It is reported that Davis's task is to cut $500m from Twitter's annual operating costs, resulting in a successful reduction of nearly $1 billion through contract termination and renegotiation.

Davis once told employees that there was nothing that could not be talked about.

Davis, 43, reportedly slept with his wife and their newborn at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco shortly after his wife gave birth.

Mr Musk recently said he planned to resign as chief executive of Twitter, fuelling speculation that Davis might succeed him.

Davis currently has no Twitter account, no social media experience or experience with advertisers, who are the lifeblood of Internet-based revenue, so it is considered unusual for him to be a candidate to replace Mr Musk.

In the two months since taking over Twitter, Mr Musk has overhauled the company's operations. A few days after Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, he called Davis. Musk told Davis that he needed to go back to Twitter headquarters.

Davis's wife and their newborn soon slept with Davis in twitter's office, according to The information.

Davis (right) is an aerospace engineer and is considered a loyal supporter of Musk.

Davis' wife reportedly attended a meeting to discuss Twitter real estate while breast-feeding her newborn. In the weeks after Musk took control of the company, much of the office space at Twitter headquarters was converted into temporary hotel rooms.

Images circulating on social media showed exhausted Twitter employees sleeping in the company's office, and San Francisco city officials investigated whether it violated the building code.

After taking over the company, Musk issued an order requiring his software engineers and developers to work around the clock to clean up Twitter's operations.

After the results of his Twitter vote on whether to stay or not, Musk announced that once he found someone "stupid enough" to take over, he would step down as chief executive of Twitter and only take charge of the software and server team.

Of the more than 10 million users who took part in the poll, 57.5% were in favor of his resignation.

Musk fired former CEO Palag Agrawal (Parag Agrawal) shortly after buying Twitter and took over as CEO of the company. According to reports, he was planning to find a full-time executive and eventually stood aside.

Musk has previously said that finding a new Twitter chief executive will be a daunting task.

He joked to Twitter fans that successors "must love pain" to run a company that is "on the fast track of bankruptcy".

In response to previous media reports that "a successor to CEO has been chosen," Musk tweeted, "No one who can keep Twitter going wants this job. There is currently no successor. "

This is not the first time an opinion poll like last week has been conducted.

Musk has previously asked users to vote on actions taken by the company, such as whether to restore former President Donald Trump's account and whether to unblock some previously banned accounts. including some journalist accounts that were closed for reporting about Twitter acquisitions and layoffs.

So far, these voting results have been implemented.

The bar owner who can't make yogurt is not a good engineer. Steve Davis, who is likely to entrust Musk with an important task, has an amazing resume.

Davis, who began working with Musk in 2003, was one of the first employees of Musk SpaceX.

Davis (right) participated in the kick-off ceremony for Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnel project colleagues described him as a keen engineer who can play a wide range of leadership roles and solve detailed engineering problems.

"he's a technician," said Juan Reyes, a former acting director of the Federal Railroad Administration. "his colleagues are counting on him to solve the problem. "

Davis has a double master's degree in particle physics and aerospace engineering and is known as a workaholic at SpaceX.

A SpaceX engineer said: "over the years, he has worked 16 hours a day, and he has done more work than 11 people. "

Not only diligent, Davis is also good at challenging the impossible. On one occasion, Musk assigned Davis the tricky task of making a $120000 part with a budget of $5000.

After months of hard work, Davis finally came up with a way to make parts at a price of $3900.

When Davis sent Musk a long message with good news outlining the process and the cost savings, Musk replied to an one-word email: "OK." "

Although the matter is now the subject of Davis's conversation, it reveals Davis's amazing ability to deal with Musk, a notoriously tough boss. That is why he is one of the longer-serving executives at Musk.

Davis's offices change frequently, including Omerek Island in the Marshall Islands and headquarters in Southern California. More than a decade ago, he moved to Washington and opened a SpaceX office in D.C.

There, Davis misses a frozen yogurt he often eats in California. To this end, he decided to learn to do it himself and make frozen yogurt.

Not only that, Davis developed frozen yogurt into a sideline of his own. Three months before the first successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon 1 carrier rocket, he opened his own yogurt shop, Mr. Yogato, near the city's DuPont roundabout.

The yogurt shop quickly got out of the circle because of a series of Yogato rules issued by Davis.

According to the rules, customers who enter the store will get a 10% discount if they can answer Davis's questions correctly.

If consumers can ask Davis questions, they can also get a discount. But if Davis answers, customers will have to pay more.

In addition, people dressed as tennis star Bjorn Borg can enjoy a 25% discount.

As Davis travels a lot, he doesn't have time to focus on the store. With the lease coming to an end this year, he wants to hand over the store he has been operating for 10 years to someone else.

Finally, as an incentive to the right person, he sold the yogurt store to Justin Featherstone for a dollar.

Mr. Yogato is not the only company Davis founded. Before becoming CEO of The Boring Company, he also owned a bar. Besides, this is no ordinary bar.

Thomas Foolery, founded by Davis, is called "the weirdest bar in Washington" by the Washington City Daily.

The bar became one of the first restaurants in Washington to accept bitcoin. The Washington Post wrote that the bar was full of "one trick after another", including a "moment of anger" discount for customers who yelled to order wine.

Thomas Foolery also offers a variety of delicacies, such as grilled cheese sandwiches, ice cream cookies and milkshakes. One commentator wrote on Yelp: "basically, this bar is like a childhood snack bar, but the alcohol version." "

The bartender is working on the Easter special, and Davis became chief executive of Boring Company in 2019. As an "unorthodox" company, CEO, Davis's daily job is to liaise with government agencies to win the trust of public officials who are skeptical of the company.

Carolyn Goodman, the mayor of Las Vegas, has publicly opposed Boring's tunnel project on the grounds that no commercial projects have been launched so far.

But Davis spoke about the company's vision for the transportation system at the Las Vegas conference and tourism board meeting, and the panel voted to approve the construction of the tunnel.

Dealing with government departments on Boring Company's Loop project is an integral part of Davis's job, and he also has to fight for the necessary trials and contracts in places such as Chicago and Baltimore.

It was a task he was familiar with when he worked at SpaceX in Washington, when he was in negotiations with agencies, including the Federal Aviation Administration.

"he kept adjusting the project until it was finally approved by the government," Reyes said. "

Davis said that if Boring Company achieves its goal in crowded urban areas of the country, then people's focus on tunneling technology may outweigh enthusiasm for flying cars.

"Flying cars. They don't really exist, "Davis said in a speech with Musk in Los Angeles. "but tunnels do exist and are very easy to build. "

Reference:

Https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-davis-boring-company-elon-musk-career-bio-2019-11

Https://interestingengineering.com/culture/elon-musk-may-have-his-replacement-on-twitter-a-former-spacex-engineer-steve-davis

Https://nypost.com/2022/12/23/top-elon-musk-assistant-slept-in-twitter-hq-with-wife-newborn-baby/

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: Xin Zhiyuan (ID:AI_era), edited by David and Xinpeng

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