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I always assumed Yaccarino was merely a figurehead installed in an effort to make Twitter more palatable to advertisers. Elon never stopped making policy pronou

by faefox 3y ago

I always assumed Yaccarino was merely a figurehead installed in an effort to make Twitter more palatable to advertisers. Elon never stopped making policy pronouncements from his personal account despite nominally giving up the CEO title.

TX81Z 3y ago
Yes, but if he wakes up at three in the morning to go the bathroom who will make major decisions?
- Apocryphon 3y ago
  The poor wretch who’s on call
- danso 3y ago
  Elon was making tweeting-while-crapping toilet jokes the same late night that he (quite foolishly) tried to drag Halli Thorleifsson. I wonder how many important twitter decisions have been impacted by Elon being affected by Ozempic side effects
stubybubs 3y ago
I'm not really sure what she thought was going to happen. There is no way that Musk was going to stop making decisions, especially about content moderation, which is really the main concern of advertisers. If he wants it to be his kind of speech over the concerns of advertisers, that's what it's going to be, and she has no path to success. I've heard Elon really seems like he's listening and that he's actually going to take advice. Yoel Roth actually believed that Elon was going to implement his trust and safety recommendations. Then he would go and tweet what he was actually going to do as soon as he was out of the meeting. At this point it's pretty well documented.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > not really sure what she thought was going to happen Fat severance package, a post-termination book deal and international name recognition?
  - djbusby 3y ago
    I'd do it for those reasons too. How much fun to watch the implosion from inside!
  - stubybubs 3y ago
    Probably. She's 60, I'm sure she could keep working if she wanted to, but maybe getting involved in the wildest ride in tech is a good story from which to launch your retirement career of being a media personality yourself. I'm sure she'd be perfect on Bill Maher or something. I could see it being a good compensation package too. Several millions more in the bank to salute the captain on a sinking ship, then sneak off to a lifeboat. And name recognition too. This is the first I had ever heard of her. So, good move there.
  - NelsonMinar 3y ago
    Maybe she gets a horse.
    - dylan604 3y ago
      No, every girl wants a pony, not a horse.
      - plorkyeran 3y ago
        This is presumably a reference to Musk offering to buy a SpaceX employee a horse in exchange for sexual favors.
        stubybubs 3y ago
        This is libel, a vile calumny, and I won't hear it! How dare you! It was a flight attendant he offered a horse to.
        toyg 3y ago
        A flight attendant who was supposed to give him a massage as part of her duties. Because who doesn't expect their flight crew to be masseuses? You must be crazy to work for Musk.
olliej 3y ago
Yaccarino was placed there simply so that when twitter does eventually go belly up Musk can go "it's her fault, I wasn't the CEO". I'm unsure why anyone thought/thinks she has any other purpose?
- papito 3y ago
  There is a term for it - a "glass cliff". You hire a woman to take the fall for you.
anonymousab 3y ago
To some extent she is also probably there to play the same "say yes to Elon about some dumb idea and then get the team to implement a somewhat less dumb version and convince him it was his idea all along" game with him that Tesla and SpaceX leadership reportedly does.
- riffraff 3y ago
  You have to wonder how much that is true for Tesla and SpaceX too, and how much is damage control PR.
- ryandrake 3y ago
  I’ve always wondered what it’s like to work for a CEO where you simultaneously 1. can’t say no to him, and 2. can’t implement their hairbrained ideas without killing your product and then being blamed for it. I heard a rumor (who knows if it’s true) that in the early-ish days of Amazon, they had an entirely separate backend and frontend just for Bezos that would only display if his account was logged in. So when he asked for something crazy they could just implement it in the Bezos-Amazon and not fuck up the main product.
  - Xen9 3y ago
    Her job is to handle the humans. Most people cannot take radical ideas and don't understand that Elon Musk does not need to care and foes not care if he fails with Twitter after first trying to construct something with a social impact. Elon Musk can fuck up every company he has and (as long as he doesn't get sued by angry investors) he will still be able to live a great, amazing life. Edit: I get down votes but no replies. If you disagree, it would be beneficial to write why.
    - WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
      > Most people cannot take radical ideas...If you disagree, it would be beneficial to write why. It might help the credibility of the free speech absolutionist if said absolutionist didn't assist a certain Turkish dictator shut down free speech, didn't mute journalists covering his actions against elonmuskjet, didn't censor the blocktheblue campaign, didn't try to erase the existence of substack from twitter, didn't help the Indian gov censor tweets that Gov didn't like ... off the top of my head. An individual using their position of power to silence unliked speech - and help authoritarians do the same ... it just isn't very radical.

by faefox 3y ago

TX81Z 3y ago

Yes, but if he wakes up at three in the morning to go the bathroom who will make major decisions?

Apocryphon 3y ago
The poor wretch who’s on call
danso 3y ago
Elon was making tweeting-while-crapping toilet jokes the same late night that he (quite foolishly) tried to drag Halli Thorleifsson. I wonder how many important twitter decisions have been impacted by Elon being affected by Ozempic side effects

stubybubs 3y ago

I'm not really sure what she thought was going to happen. There is no way that Musk was going to stop making decisions, especially about content moderation, which is really the main concern of advertisers. If he wants it to be his kind of speech over the concerns of advertisers, that's what it's going to be, and she has no path to success. I've heard Elon really seems like he's listening and that he's actually going to take advice. Yoel Roth actually believed that Elon was going to implement his trust and safety recommendations. Then he would go and tweet what he was actually going to do as soon as he was out of the meeting. At this point it's pretty well documented.

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> not really sure what she thought was going to happen Fat severance package, a post-termination book deal and international name recognition?
- djbusby 3y ago
  I'd do it for those reasons too. How much fun to watch the implosion from inside!
- stubybubs 3y ago
  Probably. She's 60, I'm sure she could keep working if she wanted to, but maybe getting involved in the wildest ride in tech is a good story from which to launch your retirement career of being a media personality yourself. I'm sure she'd be perfect on Bill Maher or something. I could see it being a good compensation package too. Several millions more in the bank to salute the captain on a sinking ship, then sneak off to a lifeboat. And name recognition too. This is the first I had ever heard of her. So, good move there.
- NelsonMinar 3y ago
  Maybe she gets a horse.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    No, every girl wants a pony, not a horse.
    - plorkyeran 3y ago
      This is presumably a reference to Musk offering to buy a SpaceX employee a horse in exchange for sexual favors.
      - stubybubs 3y ago
        This is libel, a vile calumny, and I won't hear it! How dare you! It was a flight attendant he offered a horse to.
        toyg 3y ago
        A flight attendant who was supposed to give him a massage as part of her duties. Because who doesn't expect their flight crew to be masseuses? You must be crazy to work for Musk.

olliej 3y ago

Yaccarino was placed there simply so that when twitter does eventually go belly up Musk can go "it's her fault, I wasn't the CEO". I'm unsure why anyone thought/thinks she has any other purpose?

papito 3y ago
There is a term for it - a "glass cliff". You hire a woman to take the fall for you.

anonymousab 3y ago

To some extent she is also probably there to play the same "say yes to Elon about some dumb idea and then get the team to implement a somewhat less dumb version and convince him it was his idea all along" game with him that Tesla and SpaceX leadership reportedly does.

riffraff 3y ago
You have to wonder how much that is true for Tesla and SpaceX too, and how much is damage control PR.
ryandrake 3y ago
I’ve always wondered what it’s like to work for a CEO where you simultaneously 1. can’t say no to him, and 2. can’t implement their hairbrained ideas without killing your product and then being blamed for it. I heard a rumor (who knows if it’s true) that in the early-ish days of Amazon, they had an entirely separate backend and frontend just for Bezos that would only display if his account was logged in. So when he asked for something crazy they could just implement it in the Bezos-Amazon and not fuck up the main product.
- Xen9 3y ago
  Her job is to handle the humans. Most people cannot take radical ideas and don't understand that Elon Musk does not need to care and foes not care if he fails with Twitter after first trying to construct something with a social impact. Elon Musk can fuck up every company he has and (as long as he doesn't get sued by angry investors) he will still be able to live a great, amazing life. Edit: I get down votes but no replies. If you disagree, it would be beneficial to write why.
  - WarOnPrivacy 3y ago
    > Most people cannot take radical ideas...If you disagree, it would be beneficial to write why. It might help the credibility of the free speech absolutionist if said absolutionist didn't assist a certain Turkish dictator shut down free speech, didn't mute journalists covering his actions against elonmuskjet, didn't censor the blocktheblue campaign, didn't try to erase the existence of substack from twitter, didn't help the Indian gov censor tweets that Gov didn't like ... off the top of my head. An individual using their position of power to silence unliked speech - and help authoritarians do the same ... it just isn't very radical.