Elon Musk said he dresses his Shiba Inu, who he says is the CEO of Twitter, like Elizabeth Holmes

• Elon Musk said multiple times during a BBC interview that his dog is Twitter's CEO.
• Musk said that his Shiba Inu, Floki, is the one in charge of the company.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk told the BBC that his pet Shiba Inu, Floki, is the CEO of the social media platform and that he dresses it in black turtlenecks — the outfits disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was known for wearing.

During a live interview on Twitter Spaces with James Clayton, a BBC journalist, Musk kept correcting Clayton when the latter called Musk Twitter's CEO.

"I'm not the CEO of Twitter. My dog is the CEO of Twitter. He's a great dog, very alert, and it's hard to get anything by him," Musk said.

Responding to Clayton's earlier question of who his successor as CEO would be, Musk again said that Floki had secured the position.

"He's got a black turtleneck, what do you need?" Musk said in the interview, which took place at Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday night.

Clayton asked Musk: "Steve Jobs or Elizabeth Holmes, are you making a reference to?"

"I guess more Elizabeth Holmes. He's got a husky voice," Musk said.

Holmes is the former CEO of Theranos, the failed blood-testing startup. She was convicted in January 2022 and sentenced in November to more than 11 years in prison on four wire fraud charges.

On Monday, a judge denied her request to remain free while appealing her conviction. She is scheduled to report to prison on April 27.

The BBC interview was one of several occasions that Musk has joked about his dog being the CEO of Twitter. In February, he tweeted a photo of Floki sitting at a desk and wearing a black shirt with the word "CEO" on it.

"The new CEO of Twitter is amazing," Musk wrote in his tweet on February 14.

Musk's affection for his dog has even pushed him to change Twitter's interface.

On April 3, Musk replaced Twitter's bird logo with the Shiba Inu — or doge — meme. Following this change, the price of dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that Musk supports, soared 20%.

A meme cryptocurrency token named after Floki rose 200% in value this year, beating out other Musk favorites like dogecoin and Shiba Inu.

Musk has owned a wide range of pets other than his Shiba Inu. He once had a dog named Hobbes — after Thomas Hobbes, the 17th-century philosopher — which was a Yorkshire Terrier that Musk said was "nasty, brutish & short."

In April 2019, Musk tweeted that he has "a big dog called Gatsby, a little dog called Marvin the Martian & a cat named Schrödinger."

X, Musk's son with the singer, Grimes, was also seen playing with Floki and two other dogs in a tweet posted in August.

Musk and a representative for Holmes did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours.