And just so people know where I'm coming from: I have been in the tech scene a long time. I was one of Twitter's first 500 users. I've co-founded a venture-backed startup. I worked at Twitter 2016-17 fighting abuse, and met Jack and other key players then. After that, I worked for 2 non-profits tracking large social media companies. And I've followed Musk's takeover of Twitter closely, both through the media and through my friends who worked there.
Musk's purchase of Twitter was a half-assed lark that he only completed because a court forced him to. His takeover was, even by the standards of corporate takeovers, wildly incompetent. He's spent the time since flailing around, never really understanding Twitter as a business. He is significantly damaging his other businesses and ruining his (undeserved) Henry-Ford-meets-Thomas-Edison public image.
This is not a mega-competent brain genius in action. It's somebody surrounded with yes men, slowly dissolving into a narcissistic puddle.
William Pietri /
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