Thread by @courtneymilan

It’s fascinating that some people think that Mosk is somehow gaining cred in his fight with Halli, who gets characterized as a “bitter” employee when the reality is that Halli needed a clear statement that Twitter had breached their acquisition contract.

Halli isn’t a regular at-will employee. He’s an acquired founder, and the contract almost certainly guaranteed Halli’s continued employment.

Elon is interested in scoring dunks, and sure, the faithful are going to come up with shitty, ableist arguments about why Halli should have been fired (including that he “wasn’t doing work” which is almost certainly bogus).

But I would be *shocked* if an acquired founder’s employment contract allowed him to be fired on the frivolous grounds that the rest of us have to deal with, and suspect the penalties for breach of that contract are going to be pretty high.

It’s particularly baffling that Elon made sure to lay out that his grounds for the firing include that Twitter asked Halli to do different work than Halli was hired to do, and that he fired Halli for having a disability that prevented him from doing that different work.

This hellsite’s hellowner just skewered himself on a spit, put himself over the fire, and started turning the crank, and spent the entire time screaming “you can’t own me if I own myself first!”

And his fans are there behind him screaming “You see?? Elon can’t be owned!!”

Right now I’m guessing the biggest litigation risk that Halli faces is the claims getting shoved in Twitter’s bankruptcy filings.

By the way: acquired founders are…not always required to work to collect salary. One of the main purposes of having an acquired founder on payroll is to prevent them from going and starting a competing business, after having sold the one they made.

I don’t know what this employment contract looked like at all, but the value to the acquiring company is not solely in the labor of the acquired founder; it’s in being able to direct the labor of the founder into something that’s not at cross-purposes with the company.

I don’t know what the acquisition/employment contract between Twitter and Halli actually said, but if I had to put money on which of Elon or Halli has read it carefully, I know where my money is going.

My guess is that Halli isn’t looking for a two-month buyout; he’s probably owed tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars.

My other guess is that Halli is already represented by counsel and the people saying “dude, stop tweeting and get a lawyer” don’t realize that Halli making himself seem like a small, easy to punch target is in fact an excellent litigation strategy.

I guess we will find out the truth when the lawsuit is filed!