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The level of narcissism here is astounding. The notion you can step in on day one to a complex organization and immediately have all the answers is psychotic.

• colechristensen 4y ago
  To be fair as part of the purchasing process, musk has had plenty of inside information for quite a while now.
  • necubi 4y ago
    That would have been true, if he had been working towards closing in a good-faith way instead of claiming repeatedly to have canceled the deal and fighting it in court.
    • drstewart 4y ago
      • dudeDDRrulez 4y ago
        Copy and pasting the parent post? Or are you just admitting to the world that you’re a bot account
        • drstewart 4y ago
          Yeah, you got me. I'm a bot account. Nailed it. You must have been one of the Twitter data engineers.
          • dudeDDRrulez 4y ago
            I guess I was fooled by the exact wording you used like the parent poster. Was there any particular reason for that?
            • drstewart 4y ago
              Honestly: snarkiness. Not a particularly high quality post, I admit, but it is a bit grating to see people being very reactionary in all the Twitter-related threads.
          • colechristensen 4y ago
            This is not the kind of discourse anyone wants to see on HN.
            • drstewart 4y ago
              Do you mean calling people psychotic?
  • rchaud 4y ago
    Which is why he tried to cut and run I imagine.
• lovich 4y ago
  It is psychotic but it’s pretty on brand for Musk. See his behavior in the Thailand cave rescue incident. Personally I’m interested to see if he starts claiming he’s a founder of Twitter like he does with Tesla
  • ugh123 4y ago
    He'll say something like "Founder of Twitter 2.0"
    • 18pfsmt 4y ago
      Chief Twit*
• isitmadeofglass 4y ago
  Different companies get bought for different reasons. Sometimes you’ll see manufacturing companies bought and everyone fired because the buyer wanted the machines and material and the real estate and brand etc, but didn’t care about the organization itself. Musk clearly didn’t buy Twitter to aquhire their data engineering department, so cleaning the slate and bringing on a new team might Be the fastest way to get where he wants to go.
• A4ET8a8uTh0 4y ago
  Not a fan of Musk, but.. it is officially his business. Why do you assume he was not spending that time getting re-org plan in place? It is not narcissism. It is "I bought something and I want to make it look the way I want to."
• splitstud 4y ago