Jack Dorsey says 'nah' to being Twitter CEO again after Elon Musk's buyout, and says the company actually doesn't need one

• Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey quashed speculation that he would be back to lead the company.
• "Nah, I'll never be CEO again," Dorsey tweeted on Wednesday.

"Nah."

That was Twitter's founder Jack Dorsey's response to speculation that he would return to helm the social media platform after Elon Musk acquires the company.

On Wednesday, YouTuber Charles Wieand $4 that he predicted Musk would "just ask @Jack to be CEO of Twitter."

Dorsey replied plainly: "Nah, I'll never be CEO again."

—jack⚡️ (@jack) $4

Some Twitter users urged him to reconsider, but Dorsey replied with a second "nah," saying the company should "roll the dice again" and start afresh.

—jack⚡️ (@jack) $4

Users were also keen on hearing who the founder thought would make a good leader, to which Dorsey replied: "No one ultimately."

—jack⚡️ (@jack) $4

Dorsey has said on multiple occasions that he sees Twitter as a $4 and is against running it as a corporation.

"In principle, I don't believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company," Dorsey $4 last month.

Musk, who also runs Tesla and SpaceX, is in the midst of completing his acquisition of Twitter. The deal is expected to $4 in October.

In April, Dorsey tweeted that he believed billionaire Musk's buyout was the "right first step" in righting Twitter before adding that Musk was the "$4" he trusts to lead the platform.

Dorsey co-founded Twitter in 2006. He was $4 as CEO two years later but returned to helm the company again in 2015.

Dorsey then stepped down in November and handed over the company's reins to software engineer Parag Agrawal. Musk and Agrawal have $4 with the Tesla CEO $4. In a $4 on April 13, Musk said he did not "have confidence in management."

Musk was reportedly considering becoming Twitter's $4, according to a CNBC $4 last week.