Elon Musk described running Twitter as “quite painful” and “a rollercoaster” in a hurriedly scheduled live interview with the BBC.
The multibillionaire businessman said that if the proper buyer presented themselves, he would sell the company.
Twitter was purchased by Mr. Musk, who also owns Tesla Motors and SpaceX, in October for $44 billion (£35.4 billion).
The interview took place at the company’s headquarters in San Francisco and covered his work habits, misinformation, and the huge layoffs.
But he acknowledged that the only reason he carried out the takeover was because a judge was ready to order him to buy the company.
And he declared that Twitter will modify the recently added label for the BBC account from “government funded media” to “publicly funded”.
Mr. Musk defended his leadership of the company during the conversation, in which he attempted to conduct the interview as much as the other way around.
When asked if he regretted purchasing Twitter, the second-richest man in the world replied that the “pain level has been extremely high, this hasn’t been some kind of party.”
Mr. Musk said of his early days in charge: “It hasn’t been dull. It’s been quite a rollercoaster.”
He continued, saying it had been “really quite a stressful situation over the last several months,” but he insisted that he still believed purchasing the business was the best course of action.