C levels and below are taking notes right now on what Musk is doing at twitter. Maybe a bit too early to tell, but he’s let go of 50% of staff and the website / apps etc still work fine. If he pulls this off, and all that’s hurt is some engineers egos, it’s a signal of how much efficiency can be squeezed out of every software company out there for little cost in the end. They’re all organized the same and they all hired massively in the past few years. My prediction is Musk is going to pull it off. He is a high caliber manager. There may be some downtime or bugs, but that will be temporary (a few rough months). Most employees will fall in line, cause there’s no big revolution when it comes to the monthly paycheck. Then hold on to your hats, cause C-levels at other companies will notice. They also have bosses and they’ll be pushed to think about “streamlining”, or making their orgs run “more efficiently”. I mean “Musk was able to do it, why can’t you? Should we find someone who can?” Heads are on the block. C-levels, VP’s included. Now’s the time to show value, fellow ICs. Get off the social slack channels complaining about this or that - that may be used against you later. Start writing some code and docs. I predict we’ll see this happen in spring / summer 2023. Recession may be used as an excuse, but even without that, it will happen. TC: about 300k
> Musk is a high quality manager Lol stop
If other C-level executives follow suit, there is a huge business opportunity for companies in future that can address mental health of workers. It will be a trillion dollar company.
Twitter was an outlier because they had so many people doing nothing. Amazon would never run as meaty as Twitter ever did, because it's pointless to have a bunch of millennials sit there and do nothing.
It’s highly unlikely that Twitter survives, and it’s just a matter of time before Meta or TikTok takes advantage of this. I cannot wait for Elon and his buddies to loose 40B
Right now if we are to trust musk MAU are growing
MAU is up after he blew up the verification system and you had Bush talking about killing people and Biden talking about sucking himself off. It's a circus attraction right now and you falling for Musk's attempt to highlight that as a positive just shows where your critical thinking skills are at. There's very little chance that Musk does anything but keep Twitter stagnant for a few months or years until it gets taken out by a competitor. He's likely blown tens of billions at a minimum for himself and the investors.
Are you serious? He literally is bringing them to the brink of bankruptcy
This is a seriously galaxy-brained take.
People are taking notes more about how Musk is running a company into the ground rather then what's working at the moment, and thats mainly because nothing he is doing is working yet.
Even if it works, there are a finite number of Elon followers and only one Elon. Not many good engineers are willing to work 80hrs a week while being abused and micromanaged for low pay for Zuck.
True. 80 hrs per week is ridiculous. But letting go of large swaths of people may be more palatable if this whole twitter thing turns out ok
Every company is doing reorgs and/or layoffs for the past 6 months. This is post is dumb as "tesla made electric cars popular". No lol, ICE will be illegal in EU and California by 2035. I support Elon and own Tesla shares. But this post gives no credit to the market environment
Give twitter another month or two. It's going to inevitably implode sooner or later.
I doubt it. They have network effects working for them. LinkedIn is bad software but they’re not going anywhere soon
Why will it implode?