> People being pitched on why they should stay with Twitter weren't offered more money but instead were urged to be excited about Musk's vision for Twitter and

> People being pitched on why they should stay with Twitter weren't offered more money but instead were urged to be excited about Musk's vision for Twitter and its future potential... If I’m considered critical to help in hardcore startup mode not only dig out of a multi-deca billion dollar hole but clock into a multi-billion dollar profit, there will be cash money over the barrel and non-dilutive non-screwable share grants——not options, shares——beyond the usual compensation. That’s just me but experience taught me to ignore everything business people tell you during compensation discussions except the Benjamins on a written contract your attorney vetted and signed off upon. Until you have F* You Money, blandishments of living your dream, making a dent in the universe, visions and so on don’t pay for housing, healthcare, childcare, good education, college, and retirement. Asking employees at the precipice of a recession to stay on a highly risky venture under Gigapress scale, physiological consequences pressure with zero material upside except to leadership is of course going to net few takers. If I had $50M in the brokerage account, I could take the risk of flaming out and not finding a job for a couple years during the recession. I wouldn’t do that even if I had $2M, the drag on retirement with a SWR would be kind of noticeable, when there are still job openings that would compensate at least enough to tread water until a better opportunity came along with drastically better work life balance. Musk could light all $44B on fire and his personal physical lifestyle wouldn’t appreciably change; maybe give up his private jet and subscribe to a fractional jet program type of First World Problems that he’d shrug off until he made the wealth back. Probably 500 employees of the ~2000 remaining took the offer to buy a runway to find another job. Running a global scale infrastructure and the adtech business which drives it on that few employees will be challenging. I know adtech has amazing operating margins, but pulling that off would be Craigslist leverage on 11, and they don’t have a multi year runway, more like a one year runway if that. Unless Musk envisions some radically fundamentally different way of operating adtech with profoundly higher leverage ratios, and pulling that off with a fundamentally different technical infrastructure vastly less labor intensive to develop, operate, maintain, and innovate upon, I’m not sure I see how to get from A to B.