Not to mention he's spending time responding to, and agreeing with, some pretty wacky right-wingers. It's no wonder some advertisers do not want to be associated with that platform anymore.
Not to mention he's spending time responding to, and agreeing with, some pretty wacky right-wingers. It's no wonder some advertisers do not want to be associated with that platform anymore.
Hmm. Interesting point. I wonder if Elon had considered turning his attention to running the company.
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Twitter's systems would be pretty interesting, no doubt it's a big technical challenge and requires a lot of work and skill to architect and operate while maintaining security.
I guess we'll see if they kept enough people.
I can't believe he said "A thermonuclear name & shame is exactly what will happen if this continues.".
He DESERVES advertising money or else? He'll unleash the hounds? Or bees? Or hounds with bees in their mouths?
Or I guess unleash his rabble of devoted fans.
I mean hasn't it already been pretty public as to what companies have paused their ad spend?
__________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position.
But certainty is an absurd one.
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Well, if it comes to the worst of it for Elon, he has plenty of supporters. He could always start a GoFundMe, it seems their is no limit to the amount of money cultists will throw at crazy leaders.
How many of the Elon haters have even heard of Larry think, CEO of BlackRock, before? Here is a primer on who used to own Twitter and the terrifying amount of power large investment firms hold over our day-to-day lives.
( not a conspiracy video, YouTube aggressively purges conspiracy videos and this thing has a million views)
Yeah, that is some serious whataboutism. Blackrock is worth its own thread, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with Elon Musk. Nor does it reduce or de-signify the impact of his increasingly disgusting behavior
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Well, if it comes to the worst of it for Elon, he has plenty of supporters. He could always start a GoFundMe, it seems their is no limit to the amount of money cultists will throw at crazy leaders.
FSD has to be the largest GoFundMe by a considerable margin. Lightning could strike twice as clearly a lot of people feel compelled to donate large sums of money to Elon’s cause.
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I think two things can be true at the same time. He is far to caught up in himself as evidenced by his tweets the past week.
His companies tend to perform well.
Tesla
SpaceX
Starlink
Etc
FSD might be completely fraudulent at this point, but to be part of building an EV company that actually produces cars, has multiple factories worldwide, and sells for the most part a nice product that people enjoy is not a small feat.
Building a space company that has brought back launch capabilities into US hands is a big deal.
Building a satellite based internet system that provides low latency high bandwidth internet to the world is a big deal.
Did he do all that by himself? No, of course not. He obviously has a lot of very talented people that work for him. But he also clearly has some kind of intangible that he is bringing to the table that is allowing these ventures to be successful. It doesn't mean he's a good engineer, or a good manager (by all accounts he is a ####ty manager), but there is something for sure.
Maybe he's just simply good at recruiting talent that is willing to work 80 hours per week to build some of these things, who knows.
At the same time, like most rich people, he is obviously a ######bag who has echo chamber type mentality. This is mostly true of all rich people (Gates, Bezos, etc). Nobody ever wonders why Bill Gates, as one of the richest people ever, would associate with Epstein, but magically claim to not ever know what he was up too? If you believe that, there is some ocean front property I can sell you. At some point they all think their own #### doesn't smell.
Even a guy like Buffet who is very much low key has a killer no holds barred mentality when it comes to how he runs his companies.
Of course all that doesn't mean Twitter will be successful, because I'm not sure that you can truly be profitable as a social media company, but it also doesn't mean he's a moron either when it comes to building successful companies.
Reading the replies here by some people, y'all spend too much time of the crazy part of Reddit.
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I don't see any way you can lay that many people off in a week without doing vast damage to the company, I mean I could see it if there was an unprofitable arm of a company you were closing down but when its in every department then you really have no clue who you are canning or what they do, on top of this I don't see anyone wanting to stay at Twitter at this point, what Musk is signaling is it is going to be a grimly unpleasant place to work, chaotically run, long hours.
The staff that are the most innovative qualified and essential will already have 15 or 20 job offers on their linked in account, they will bail, Musk will be left with the Big Heads and Jimmy Yiang's of the company not the Gilfoyle's
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