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I doubt they’re worried about the bill. It’s Microsoft. It probably has more to do with him painting them as the evil capitalists who took OpenAI closed source

I doubt they’re worried about the bill. It’s Microsoft. It probably has more to do with him painting them as the evil capitalists who took OpenAI closed source and for profit to achieve world domination. He spoke a lot about this in recent interview.

BulgarianIdiot 3y ago
"It's Microsoft" is to me a very naïve explanation. It's how a 9-to-5 employee thinks about capital "oh, they're rich, they can spend on anything and not care". That's not how it works. You don't build a large profitable company if you spend like the spoiled, drunk, drugged out offspring of a billionaire, who has a 10 million dollar weekly allowance, to spend on cars, women, jets and substances. Every decision has to be rational, meaning you are at least break even, ideally above break even. If not financially, at least tactically, strategically, politically, any way at all. Any way at all. They weren't breaking even here, and had no reason to invest in a relationship with a man child driving his $44B investment into the ground, while embarrassing himself every single day. No serious business needs or wants relationship with Twitter anymore. If given a reason to look into it, a tipping point, a drop-that-spills-the-glass reason to exit, they'd exit. And Elon keeps providing excellent, very convincing ones. Such as "you suddenly owe us MILLIONS to use our API, in order to provide a free service to your customers, which mostly works out to our benefit, so your customers can run ads with us." If you're a Microsoft manager, you spend an hour at most thinking and consulting about it, and of course you finally say "lol, no" and quit.
- v0idzer0 3y ago
  I think your opinion might be overly influenced by your disdain for Musk. This sounds borderline unhinged to me. > It's how a 9-to-5 employee thinks about capital Okay, well, I'm the founder and CTO of a Series C company. > you suddenly owe us MILLIONS to use our API Where did you get this price? Regardless "MILLIONS" is not even something you need C-suite approval for at Microsoft. > in order to provide a free service to your customers The service is not free.

BulgarianIdiot 3y ago

"It's Microsoft" is to me a very naïve explanation. It's how a 9-to-5 employee thinks about capital "oh, they're rich, they can spend on anything and not care". That's not how it works. You don't build a large profitable company if you spend like the spoiled, drunk, drugged out offspring of a billionaire, who has a 10 million dollar weekly allowance, to spend on cars, women, jets and substances. Every decision has to be rational, meaning you are at least break even, ideally above break even. If not financially, at least tactically, strategically, politically, any way at all. Any way at all. They weren't breaking even here, and had no reason to invest in a relationship with a man child driving his $44B investment into the ground, while embarrassing himself every single day. No serious business needs or wants relationship with Twitter anymore. If given a reason to look into it, a tipping point, a drop-that-spills-the-glass reason to exit, they'd exit. And Elon keeps providing excellent, very convincing ones. Such as "you suddenly owe us MILLIONS to use our API, in order to provide a free service to your customers, which mostly works out to our benefit, so your customers can run ads with us." If you're a Microsoft manager, you spend an hour at most thinking and consulting about it, and of course you finally say "lol, no" and quit.

v0idzer0 3y ago
I think your opinion might be overly influenced by your disdain for Musk. This sounds borderline unhinged to me. > It's how a 9-to-5 employee thinks about capital Okay, well, I'm the founder and CTO of a Series C company. > you suddenly owe us MILLIONS to use our API Where did you get this price? Regardless "MILLIONS" is not even something you need C-suite approval for at Microsoft. > in order to provide a free service to your customers The service is not free.