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Regardless of your feelings about Elon Musk as a person, this kind of behavior is absolutely crazy for the leader of a company. I can't imagine what investors w
by BeefWellington 4y ago
Regardless of your feelings about Elon Musk as a person, this kind of behavior is absolutely crazy for the leader of a company. I can't imagine what investors who signed on to do this with him are thinking unless their goal was to simply destroy the company.
- cwilkes 4y agoWhy would two of Musk’s financiers in this Qatar and Saudi Arabia want twitter dead? Oh wait.
- tru3_power 4y agoSource?
- mikeyouse 4y agoThe Saudi one is well-known - they're the second largest equity holder in the new org; https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/1585975226567110656 https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/158597522656711065...
- mikeyouse 4y agoJust adding a source for Qatar as well - in for $375 million: https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/11/12/qatars-backing-of-elon-musks-twitter-deal-raises-questions-ahead-of-the-fifa-world-cup/?sh=5db5d472709a https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/11/12/qatar...
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoIn a $44 billion deal, I'm not sure that $375 million buys you much leverage. That's under 1%.
- cokeandpepsi 4y agoDidn't the saudi's get in trouble for trying to plant spies in twitter to sniff out political dissidents? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/09/twitter-saudi-arabia-dissident-spying https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/09/twitter-saud...
- barbazoo 4y agoAgree. Mostly I feel for the people working at a place that chaotic. Life is hard enough for many, no need for an eratic, eccentric billionaire with a short fuse to make things even more complicated.
- orangepurple 4y ago
- xwdv 4y agoI think the goal was to destroy the company. Twitter has become such a cesspool and liability for a lot of important people and governments. Bring in someone like Elon Musk to blow it up in spectacular fashion.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoSpouting off conspiracy theories aren't evidence of anything. Occam's razor would suggest he's more likely to be an arrogant, incompetent manager who's had a few successes here and there but is ultimately out-of-touch with reality and triumphally operating well outside his limited experience.
- skellington 4y agoA few successes here and there lol...the arrogance of your statement is hilarious.
- wfaler 4y agoI know someone personally who won the lottery twice. The exceptionally and undeservingly lucky exist.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoIt's how to murder morale, demotivate people, and force high-performers out. There's no such thing as "creative destruction" when it comes to leadership or teams. And so there's no salvaging EM's or Twitter's reputation at this point. He should stick to engineering and let sensible, mature, secure adults run companies.
- shitlord 4y agoAccording to the tweet, the buildings were closed due to prevent employees from sabotaging things. None of us know whether the tweet is accurate, though.
- bagels 4y agoEveryone has been working from home. What could they possibly sabotage in the office that they couldn't from home, the coffee maker?
- dsq 4y agoProduction environments are genuinely isolated from the internet and accessible either only physically or through very secure channels. In order to sabotage these environments you have to be physically present. Unplug servers, intruduce malware via usb stick, etc.