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I didn't conclude it wasn't a 'successful' acquisition. Just a case study of what not to do. Even if it somehow ends up in a place it gets spun as being a succe

• 55555 4y ago
  You're being downvoted because it's too soon to judge so harshly. You may be just as biased in the opposite direction as the fanboys. There's been a lot of dumbness and silliness involved but it's pretty hard to assume that a random HN commenter is a better businessman than Musk.
  • lostcolony 4y ago
    So that comment is currently sitting at 1, so upvotes balancing downvotes. The original +12. But I really don't care either way; to your point - even Musk didn't want to acquire Twitter once he sobered up to the fact he was in too deeply to pull out. It's just his brilliant business acumen meant he went into it waiving due diligence. Which, yes, this random HN commenter knows better than to do, for any company, let alone a social media company.
• 331c8c71 4y ago
  > how dumb everything about this has been. Including pre-musk twitter as a directionless and weird company imo.