Good for Eric. What kind of CEO trashes his own employees (and the product which he now owns) in public like this? It's a good thing Musk wants to reduce headcount because it's hard to imagine anyone taking an offer from Twitter at this point.
If there's anything about Musk's leadership style I find the most... confusing? it's that he doesn't seem to like to be challenged. I would consider the people most willing to productively call me out are my most valuable assets.
This is a very interesting aspect of the very visible way that Musk has taken over Twitter. For example, not knowing his style, one would assume that decisions like making full self-driving use only camera sensors was discussed in depth and contrary points of view were carefully considered. That might have happened. But based on what we all now see, it also might not have happened at all. The same goes for Starship. Is it a breakthrough innovation? Or is it an idiosyncratic founder's Spruce Goose?
Tesla's board has had well-known independence issues for a while. Musk's insanity while running Twitter adds credibility to Musk's detractors at Tesla tho, which is probably why Tesla's been plunging lately
> because it's hard to imagine anyone taking an offer from Twitter at this point
That's what increased compensation is for.
Except in this case, Elon has both pushed for cutting costs (negating the ability to pay increased compensation) and also pushed for a much worse work-life balance to the point that increased compensation may still result in worse $/hr than another tech job.
Also, the equity investors are all solidly underwater. The debt holders are under water by maybe half. So anyone with an incentive package is last in line behind the creditors and the equity investors.
Dude just said Elon was wrong. You'd think the self-declared free-speech absolutist would've been happy to publicly debate him in the marketplace of ideas (or however that old chestnut goes). :)
Musk didn't delete his Twitter account, so he's still able to debate in the public Town Square. The free-speech exhortation doesn't apply to his job, apparently. No winners here.
