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Elon was (sadly) right. His cuts were painful but they produced a much leaner and more productive company at Twitter. They actually ship now. Nat Friedman once
by steno132 3y ago
Elon was (sadly) right. His cuts were painful but they produced a much leaner and more productive company at Twitter. They actually ship now.
Nat Friedman once said on Twitter that tech companies are 2-5x overstaffed and everyone knows this.
I hope the same positive outcome comes out of T-Mobile, and not just people losing their jobs. And I hope they find new jobs soon.
- profunctor 3y agoSince his cuts Twitter seems like it would be worth a lot less than he paid for it. And twitter shipped before him.
- steno132 3y agoHard disagree. What's the last major feature Twitter shipped before Elon? Keep in mind they had 8000 employees Just in the last one year, we've gotten: Twitter Notes, long form video, checkmarks for everyone, subscriptions for creators, edit tweets, see # of replies and likes on a tweet Yes, Twitter is worth less than he paid for it. He's partially responsible, he's been too erratic. But I'm optimistic with this shipping velocity, in a couple years the company will be worth much more.
- ianburrell 3y agoEditing tweets was in testing in Sep 2022 before the acquisition. Subscriptions was released in 2021 then called Super Follows. Notes was rolled out in Jun 2022, before the acquisition. Basically, half the things you attribute to Musk are the major features they released before him.
- ericfrazier 3y agoOne major feature they shipped was not ostracizing half their users. All shitter ships now is ways to get at liberals.
- eppsilon 3y agoI think Fleets and Spaces were both released in the couple of years pre-Musk. (Fleets was later removed.)
- cramjabsyn 3y agoShip what exactly?
- TurkishPoptart 3y agoI think he means it functions just as before but with a fraction of the staff.
- steno132 3y agoTwitter Notes, long form video, checkmarks for everyone, subscriptions for creators, edit tweets, see # of replies and likes on a tweet And that's just in 1 year
- ericfrazier 3y agoEasier to ship when you have so many fewer users.
- avgDev 3y agoHey Elon get back on twitter. You've literally made two same posts. I don't understand why you would care so much about this unless you are Elon.
- jzb 3y ago"And I hope they find new jobs soon." Where, exactly? If everybody is 2-5x overstaffed and is cutting people, where are all those people going to go? Form startups to sell things to people forming startups because they were laid off? People like Nat and Musk want people burning themselves out with overwork and blame organizational and management issues on people not working hard enough. The truth is at most tech companies the real organizational waste is bad leadership and poor direction, people not having clear goals and work, and burning too many cycles trying to compensate for organizational dysfunction.
- henry2023 3y agoTwitter once was a profitable business that had 8,000 well paid employees. Now it's in the path of bankruptcy. Hurray Elon