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It would be trivial to make twitter profitable by laying off most of the engineering team in San Francisco, and moving the ops teams to the folks who run ESPN w
by influx 10y ago
It would be trivial to make twitter profitable by laying off most of the engineering team in San Francisco, and moving the ops teams to the folks who run ESPN web properties.
Just keep the lights on, maintain the software and it would mint money.
- jerf 10y agoOnly for a brief time. As Twitter stood still and the rest of the ecosystem moves on (and the biological metaphor is fairly apt here), all the other things in the ecosystem would figure out how to eat Twitter's lunch. Twitter's value (such as you may think it is) would depreciate fairly quickly in that scenario. It's not a mint forever. It probably wouldn't even be a mint on the timescale that, say, the Marvel cinematic universe has been and will be a mint.
- exstudent2 10y agoTwitter has been standing still for a really long time.
- jerf 10y agoOnly on the outside. Let it also stand still on the inside and the results will be different.