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> Walmart has 2.3 million employees but it's just a store. This is a terrible example and you know it. Walmart has physical stores everywhere.

kllrnohj 4y ago
That's exactly the point - Twitter had sales reps & SpaceX didn't. Twitter had moderators and SpaceX didn't. The companies have different external-facing relationships at every level, even ignoring the obviously massive unrelated engineering differences.
- Mikeb85 4y ago
  5000 salespeople and moderators? Please... They don't need that. Besides, my comment was about Walmart, which has over 10,000 stores... So of course they have more employees than Twitter by a huge margin.
  - themitigating 4y ago
    You don't know what they need, you don't have any useful information. The only reason you think they are over staffed is because you don't like the political views of the majority of employees and you disagree with their content moderation policy. That's it and it's so obvious.
    - Mikeb85 4y ago
      > The only reason you think they are over staffed is because you don't like the political views of the majority of employees and you disagree with their content moderation policy. No, it's because they haven't done anything innovative in a decade and their product is much simpler than a ton of tech companies with half the staff... Their stock price was super depressed and they were losing what, $4 million per day? It's super obvious for anyone remotely financially literate that they were way overstaffed. Any buyer would have laid off at least half the staff... Even Jack Dorsey admitted it: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/05/jack-dorsey-speaks-twitter-layoffs/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/05/jack-dorsey-speaks-twitter...
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  - test098 4y ago
    Wow, you seem to know a lot about running multibillion dollar companies in completely different industries! So let's imagine you run Twitter and you're operating in every western country on the planet. Now, all those countries have different laws and regulations. Are you, the CEO/coder/whatever going to be the one who sits down with regulators and discuss the nuance of their laws? How are you going to deal with law enforcement requests? FOIA requests from journalists? What kinds of information can you store about users in different locales? What kind of government compliance do you need to have in place for enterprise customers? How many hours per week are you allowed to require for workers in Germany? Can your translation contractors in Poland work through the holidays? Or maybe you consider lawyers just another one of those pesky salespeople/moderators who gets in the way of genius? That's just one tiny segment of the company. Try to imagine how many other moving parts there are besides the four roles of "CEO," "coder," "salesperson," and "moderator."

kllrnohj 4y ago

That's exactly the point - Twitter had sales reps & SpaceX didn't. Twitter had moderators and SpaceX didn't. The companies have different external-facing relationships at every level, even ignoring the obviously massive unrelated engineering differences.

Mikeb85 4y ago
5000 salespeople and moderators? Please... They don't need that. Besides, my comment was about Walmart, which has over 10,000 stores... So of course they have more employees than Twitter by a huge margin.
- themitigating 4y ago
  You don't know what they need, you don't have any useful information. The only reason you think they are over staffed is because you don't like the political views of the majority of employees and you disagree with their content moderation policy. That's it and it's so obvious.
  - Mikeb85 4y ago
    > The only reason you think they are over staffed is because you don't like the political views of the majority of employees and you disagree with their content moderation policy. No, it's because they haven't done anything innovative in a decade and their product is much simpler than a ton of tech companies with half the staff... Their stock price was super depressed and they were losing what, $4 million per day? It's super obvious for anyone remotely financially literate that they were way overstaffed. Any buyer would have laid off at least half the staff... Even Jack Dorsey admitted it: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/05/jack-dorsey-speaks-twitter-layoffs/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/05/jack-dorsey-speaks-twitter...
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- test098 4y ago
  Wow, you seem to know a lot about running multibillion dollar companies in completely different industries! So let's imagine you run Twitter and you're operating in every western country on the planet. Now, all those countries have different laws and regulations. Are you, the CEO/coder/whatever going to be the one who sits down with regulators and discuss the nuance of their laws? How are you going to deal with law enforcement requests? FOIA requests from journalists? What kinds of information can you store about users in different locales? What kind of government compliance do you need to have in place for enterprise customers? How many hours per week are you allowed to require for workers in Germany? Can your translation contractors in Poland work through the holidays? Or maybe you consider lawyers just another one of those pesky salespeople/moderators who gets in the way of genius? That's just one tiny segment of the company. Try to imagine how many other moving parts there are besides the four roles of "CEO," "coder," "salesperson," and "moderator."