Well, as Elon Musk just convincingly demonstrated, you can let go of half of them and nothing really bad happens. There's no good reason for Twitter to employ h

Well, as Elon Musk just convincingly demonstrated, you can let go of half of them and nothing really bad happens. There's no good reason for Twitter to employ huge tech teams with thousands of people. As Elon Musk probably reasoned, micro blogs are not rocket science. And he would know a thing or two about the difference. Twitter's main competitor is something that was built by volunteers over the course of a few years. Mastodon of course has its limitations but in terms of features it's actually doing most of the important things that Twitter does. That project has hundreds of competitors but most of the work gets done by a handful of people. A lot of these big companies accumulate people almost as fast as they accumulate wealth. It's a weird dynamic where they basically recruit themselves into being slow, bureaucratic, and ultimately ineffective. Once you have thousands of people, change and taking risks become very hard . That's why the startup model is so popular. Startups make things happen that big companies struggle to make happen.