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These are widely different tones and messages, if you have the other for context. Especially the bit about how “we’re still in control”. Seems obvious that a takeover is imminent.
Where's the "we're still in control" bit?
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These are widely different tones and messages, if you have the other for context. Especially the bit about how “we’re still in control”. Seems obvious that a takeover is imminent.
Oh wow. I was honestly annoyed the conversation was a tangent about alt text. Then you all found evidence that he withdrew for takeover reasons. Time to eat some humble pie. (I also have blind friends, and suddenly feel terrible about diminishing the importance of alt text.) What an interesting mistake. There must have been three or four messages. I wonder if the CEO acted alone or as a part of a team. Talk about “no…
Serious question: Who cares? I am not trying to make a joke or seem edgy. Literally, what group of people is actually impacted by this by first or second order effects of…whatever the hell this story entails? In other words, this is on the front page of hacker news. Why?!
If you look at it in the context of Musk 2024 you should probably care about it, given what trump did with twitter.
Edit: disregard all of that. He's South African, he couldn't run. Whew!
Not a surprise if you’ve read any of Musk’s tweets this past weeks. He sounds unhinged. He’s like Kanye West. Occasionally says and does great things but more often than not is tweeting nonsense that could damage the company/brand. You cannot have a board member polling users as to whether or not HQ should be converted to a refugee for the homeless. The uncertainty and stress nonsense like that must cause for employe…
This was a response to Bezos's tweet. Thanks to that tweet I learned that Amazon is already doing this in Seattle.
Not a surprise if you’ve read any of Musk’s tweets this past weeks. He sounds unhinged. He’s like Kanye West. Occasionally says and does great things but more often than not is tweeting nonsense that could damage the company/brand. You cannot have a board member polling users as to whether or not HQ should be converted to a refugee for the homeless. The uncertainty and stress nonsense like that must cause for employe…
> Not a surprise if you’ve read any of Musk’s tweets this past weeks. He sounds unhinged. The past few weeks? The dude accused a rescue operations leader of being a pedophile after the leader said Musk's stupid giant box wouldn't fit through the passages in the cave. The one where people were having to take off their diving gear and push it through ahead of them because the passages in the caves were so tight. Then t…
Can you elaborate on this? People are quitting/getting fired all the time at Tesla yet they seem to be firing on all cylinders.
It’s funny that the first paragraph of the letter says they believed it was best for Elon to join the board. Then the second paragraph says that Elon declined to join the board and they believe it was also for the best.
Joining the board "the best path forward", whereas not joining was "the best". From this we can deduce that the destination of the "the best path forward" was for him to leave the board ("the best").
Seems he already knew that much at least
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> The part I don't get: why is Elon still tweeting ideas for improving Twitter and shaking things up? That is weird, trolling doesn't seem like Elon's thing at all.
Where have you been? The man lives to troll.
A very odd set of events and no explanation regarding Elon's change of mind. A pessimist would think that Elon has decided to go for a "hostile" takeover since he is no longer bound by the percentage holding cap. An optimistic would think that Elon had enough self-awareness to realize it would be an overall distraction for Twitter with little benefit. It amuses me more than it should that the CEO of Twitter has poste…
He seems to be playing with fire, they could ban him and that would seriously damage him.
If Twitter is afraid of Musk interfering with things as they are, the best possible way to get Musk to buy the company (with what would be pocket change for him) would be to ban him.
"So we decided that Elon would join our board, and that was in the best path forward, but then Elon decided that he would not join the board and that was also the best decision" You have no idea how much I hate this corporate speech of fried air and buttlickers
hmmm not sure how I feel about this. I bought Twitter stock after I knew he will be joining the board. Hopefully he has something bigger in mind.
> I bought Twitter stock after I knew he will be joining the board. I would give you two pieces of advice. The first is traditional investing wisdom: buy on rumors, sell on news. Why sell on news? To make money from people who did what you did. Once you hear about some news, it's almost always too late to make money on it. The second piece of advice is not to trade on anything Elon Musk says or does.