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Elon Musk and Twitter boss’s messages show how pair fell out (theguardian.com)
2 points by kergonath on Oct 1, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> This tweet angers Mr Agrawal. Later that day he messages:

> "You are free to tweet 'is Twitter dying?' or anything else about Twitter - but it's my responsibility to tell you that it's not helping me make Twitter better in the current context.

> "Next time we speak, I'd like to you provide you [sic] perspective on the level of the internal distraction right now and how it [sic] hurting our ability to do work."

> Elon Musk, notoriously, does not like being told what to do - especially whether and what he can tweet.

Rookie mistake. Know your audience.

I think it's kind of hilarious Agrawal became the CEO of Twitter with such poor people skills; this was an enormous and totally avoidable blunder.

Ego is the greatest destroyer all.




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