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His ability to attract top tier talent and work them hard is second to none. And frankly, many great engineers want to work hard and want to work with other gre
by gizmo 4y ago
His ability to attract top tier talent and work them hard is second to none. And frankly, many great engineers want to work hard and want to work with other great engineers who want to work hard on something that matters for society. That rules out most Silicon Valley startups.
Electric cars and SpaceX are intrinsically cool to work on, but it remains to be seen whether working on "Twitter 2.0" will be interesting enough for Elon to attract enough talent.
- computerdork 4y agoAgree with your sentiment, and think Elon did miscalculate here. Because, yes, how much innovation is left in social media company? Maybe some, but nothing compared to changing how the world drives and uses fossil fuels, or sending people to Mars. I still think Elon is a brilliant person who (along with teams of other brilliant people) has accomplished incredible things. But as others are saying, think in this case, his ego got the better of him. I'm a software dev, and there is little chance I'd kill myself to build a different version of Twitter.