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I have no clue what Twitter will be turned into by Musk. I also don’t have a very strong opinion about the entire situation or about the changes he’s implementi
by baxtr 4y ago
I have no clue what Twitter will be turned into by Musk. I also don’t have a very strong opinion about the entire situation or about the changes he’s implementing right now.
But here is what concerns me: the speed of execution. Ofc speed matters a lot in startups. But Twitter is a not a startup anymore.
Compare that to when Steve Jobs returned to Apple. He took some weeks (months?) to understand what was going on inside Apple thoroughly. Only after he understood the situation (he did product review sessions) and had developed a strategy, only then he executed it quickly. And even then, he knew that results would come eventually but not immediately.
Now, ofc you could argue that the situation is different since Musk is a long-term twitter user himself and knows the platform, at least outside in. Yet, Jobs was an Apple user, too.
I don’t know. We will see how this turns out. Musk has some other companies that are running quite well.
Still, this might be the one which won’t because he rushed it.
- poszlem 4y agoWe know that from the released texts, that Musk is a close friend of Jack Dorsey, so I would expect him to have necessary intel in place for months.
- baxtr 4y agoWe know that Steve Jobs still knew many many people inside Apple when he returned and had ongoing business relations with them. Yet, he didn’t skip the step of understanding from the people directly once he was CEO.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoThe deal for Musk to buy Twitter was agreed in April. He has indeed taken control only this week but he had months to get a plan together, with, as far as I know, a level of access to Twitter's internals during that time.
- abzolv 4y agoKara Swisher said some advertisers had told her, after a meeting with Musk last week in NY, that either he came to the meeting totally unprepared or he actually had no plan. He could not articulate a sensible plan to them.
- abzolv 4y agoThe months you’re referring to was spent trying to get out of the deal. It was not spent preparing for it to close.
- baxtr 4y agoMaybe he had access to internals. But do you really believe it's comparable to the SJ situation? He was the CEO and could talk to all the people in person. He spent most of his time understanding. It's seems very different now.
- _djo_ 4y agoHe had no access to internals during that time, and the calibre of the 'planning' revealed during discovery in the trial was neither deep nor substantial. There are now reports that some of those laid off are being asked to come back, in a belated recognition that it was a chaotic and flawed process.