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He's going to continue running Twitter into the ground while now being able to make her the scapegoat for it. Typical glass cliff
by prh8 3y ago
He's going to continue running Twitter into the ground while now being able to make her the scapegoat for it. Typical glass cliff
- nprateem 3y agoWell that might be a strategy if it wasn't his own money he was burning.
- prh8 3y ago[flagged]
- ldjkfkdsjnv 3y agoDude havent you come to terms with the fact that hes competent? Twitter never went down after firing all those engineers?
- chucky_z 3y agoTwitter never went down because of those engineers and the great work they did. Elon has been making all kinds of shit up as he goes. He is not an engineer, and never will be one. He can be a great businessman (and at times -- he has made great decisions for businesses.) and be a terrible engineer. He seems to be stuck on the latter even being possible.
- xeromal 3y agoWhat's your criteria for Elon's decisions being bad? I'm curious.
- Danjoe4 3y agoHe is chief engineer of SpaceX. The rockets seem pretty good to me.
- karpierz 3y agoHe has the title 'Chief Engineer' at SpaceX, a company which he owns. Turns out, when you own the company, you can make the company call you whatever will best serve your ego.
- FredPret 3y agoYes but the rockets will only go up if the engineering is actually good. So either he's a really good engineer or he's really good at hiring them, which means he's a really good engineer. It's comical how much people hate this guy. He's a smart person you don't like, why is that so hard to accept.
- karpierz 3y ago> either he's a really good engineer or he's really good at hiring them, which means he's a really good engineer. Or someone else at SpaceX is good at hiring engineers? Is your conclusion that everyone who owns a successful engineering company is a really good engineer?
- robryan 3y agoStill have to be good at hiring those people that are good at hiring. And giving them the funding, culture and vision to succeed.
- karpierz 3y agoI'm not saying Elon succeeds by accident. I think he's a very smart man who despite that, manages to think he's smarter than he is. I think that his unique talents are not in engineering but sales. He's great at selling his vision to some people who will then bleed for him. He's great at fundraising and convince people to fund his ventures. I don't think he's an engineering prodigy like Carmack or Wozniak. I don't think he's a product genius like Jobs. I think he's a fantastic salesman who finds bets that will pay off if you can keep at them for long enough, and uses his fundraising talents to keep his companies afloat until they do pay off.
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- theturtletalks 3y agoTurning Twitter into pay-to-play will look “competent” in the beginning, but we’re not sure how it’ll work in the long run. Lately, it looks like lower level (non-twitter blue) users have no incentive to come up with new content. If they do, high level users (twitter blue) will regurgitate it to their audience and it’ll be amplified to the top. Before, the playing field was level.
- flerchin 3y agoYes it did.
- __jem 3y agoThe vibe on Twitter has become totally noxious since bluechecks started getting promoted under every single tweet. I'm still on there because of inertia, but from my feed there are plenty of people like me waiting to jump ship to bluesky. Twitter's brand is toxic now. Maybe they'll make up the difference with users coming over from Parler or whatever, but I doubt it.
- lesuorac 3y agoWhats the definition of down? Twitter has had many outages; the objective stability of the webpage is worse after acquisition than before.
- bobsil1 3y agoElon’s hourly clown show? What are you watching?
- d23 3y agoBy his own admission the value of Twitter has dropped 50%, and he has suggested bankruptcy is on the table. This will be a case study of bad management in textbooks for decades to come.