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What I find so amazing about this dumpsterfire is how easy the plan to maximize Twitter revenue would have been: fire 80-90% of developers over the next year an
by mihaic 4y ago
What I find so amazing about this dumpsterfire is how easy the plan to maximize Twitter revenue would have been: fire 80-90% of developers over the next year and just optimize the system to reduce infrastructure costs by 95%. Be transparent, humane and not an asshole while doing this.
When you then have a leaner organization then you can go nuts.
Musk acted like an impatiant child, all the while being mostly right.
- pjc50 4y ago> fire 80-90% of developers over the next year and just optimize the system to reduce infrastructure costs by 95% "just" The presumption here is that 90% of the staff weren't doing anything useful, and that 95% of the infrastructure costs were wasted, and both of those would be extremely surprising? Also very non-efficient-markets-hypothesis, that a public company would just sit there wasting almost all of its money.
- mihaic 4y agoWhy would it be surprising? Without any pressure to cut costs engineers find countless ways to "be useful" that ads little value while adding massive complexity to the organization, ballooning maintenance costs in the long-term. I've heard so many bullshit work stories from FAANG friends that I'm not sure why you'd expect markets to be efficient regarding these hugely subsidized tech companies.
- paulgb 4y agoHe sorta forced his own hand here by saddling the company with so much debt that it couldn’t afford not to drastically cut back spending.