Yes. I also feel that a lot of people may be misunderstanding the motivation here. I think Musk is saying what he’s saying for a very specific simple reason. To

Yes. I also feel that a lot of people may be misunderstanding the motivation here. I think Musk is saying what he’s saying for a very specific simple reason. To weed out people who are just cruising along and being paid not doing much. I doubt he’ll continue pushing this narrative that much when he gets the desired result, getting back to a more reasonable typical startup execution mode. And I never was a fanboy, I just worked myself at Meta for almost 4 years and this is literally what I would do if (god forbid lol) I’d be given a chance to take over as a CEO. Let go of 50-70% of slackers or just people doing random shit and shut down some ridiculous orgs. Make sure everybody understands the culture changed. And then proceed in a more normal fashion. If you haven’t been at Meta/Goog, it’s really hard to believe how bad is it there. There’re even memes like “rest and vest”. In a normal starup, people like that would be goners very quickly. In these large bloated money-corrupted orgs with no critical oversight on many layers you can survive literally for years doing literally close to nothing if you built a good enough initial rep. Not saying all the engineers/folks he fired are like that, of course. But I’m pretty sure a lot are. And having worked in the company for many years is actually a negative signal here from that perspective. Because old-timers may have a lot of internal cred not necessarily based on their most recent accomplishments. Edit: typos