How Twitter will change as a private company

In August 2018, Elon Musk called Michael Dell for advice.

Mr. Musk, who was trying to take Tesla, his electric car company, private, quizzed Mr. Dell, who had done that very thing with his eponymous computer company in 2013, about the process and the best lawyers to use for the complicated transaction.

“I was really asking him about — did he find being private was good?” Mr. Musk recalled in a deposition about the Tesla effort. “Did he regret going private?”