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> Zuckerberg saw them coming though [...] even Bezos saw it coming, that why Amazon bought Twitch. Which pertains to my reply... how? > Musk saw it coming wit
by masklinn 1y ago
> Zuckerberg saw them coming though [...] even Bezos saw it coming, that why Amazon bought Twitch.
Which pertains to my reply... how?
> Musk saw it coming with Twatter
Musk saw nothing coming. He bought twitter in 2022 after getting baited into making a binding offer. Twitter was a household name at least a decade before that: news networks had direct twitter interactions and mentions at least as far back as the 2012 election.
And although it's been turned private and delisted, it's estimated to be worth just a fraction of what he paid for it.
> Google leadership just doesn't understand social media
Have you considered actually reading replies instead of going off with whatever your pet assertions are?
> That's irrelevant what old googlers think.
It's very relevant to your assertion that "google never really cared".
> Google has a responsibility to their shareholders to make line go up, not make some of their programmers feel good by keeping them working on platforms with no user base wile their competitors steam ahead.
That has nothing whatsoever to do with what I'm replying to.
- lesuorac 1y ago> > Musk saw it coming with Twatter > And although it's been turned private and delisted, it's estimated to be worth just a fraction of what he paid for it. I'd just stick with "he tried to back out of it and had to be sued to buy it" as evidence that musk didn't forsee anything. It is a bit (darkly) amusing that the document required him to buy the company buy not pay the severance listed in it when firing people. Although if Grok was a standalone company I think it's hard to argue it'd valued less than 44 billion so Musk really lucked into a great deal. He also really lucked into Biden not stepping down earlier so the Democrats would run an actual competitive primary.
- dieortin 1y agoGrok is from xAI, a company he separately funded. It wasn’t part of the acquisition of Twitter.
- lesuorac 1y ago> [1] xAI was founded by Musk on March 9, 2023 > [2] Elon Musk completed the acquisition of Twitter in October 2022 xAI would've just been an AI division of Twitter if Musk wasn't worried that Twitter was going to go bankrupt and take the company (xAI) with it (Twitter). It's extremely suspicious that Grok was available to paying X subscribers and not some other arrangement. "Separately" funded is pretty thin. It's the same group of people funding xAI [3] as Twitter acquisition [4]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company) [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#2022%E2%80%93present https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#2022%E2%80%93present [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)#Financial_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)#Financial_histor... [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk#Acquisition_announcement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon...