That's wild. It's untaxed comp that minimizes the time employees need to spend thinking about food during the day. He's mandating employees come back to the office for long hours, but now they need to (at least) order and receive their own lunches and dinners? If he's trying to retain some sort of high-intensity hardcore ninja startup bullshit, I would think free food would be the last thing cut. Or is he planning fo…
Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.
Anyone know why those unpaid mods do what they do? It's like a cult.
I've seen people volunteer to pick up trash in their neighborhood public park. Do you think that's like a cult?
Or how about people who contribute to open source software that they use? Like a cult?
Volunteering to moderate a forum you participate in and enjoy is not really very different from those.
Elon is rich because PayPal investors paid him to go away. Nothing that happened in his life before that matters at all or gave him any extra starting privilege, diamond mine or no.
That is not accurate. Have you seen the video of "multi-millionaire entrepreneur" Elon Musk taking delivery of a $1 million dollar McLaren car, before PayPal?
Eh, that was from Zip2 for $22 million, right? That's something but it's not PayPal money. I think he just had "average Stanford student" levels of privilege to do that.
That is not accurate. Have you seen the video of "multi-millionaire entrepreneur" Elon Musk taking delivery of a $1 million dollar McLaren car, before PayPal?
Eh, that was from Zip2 for $22 million, right? That's something but it's not PayPal money. I think he just had "average Stanford student" levels of privilege to do that.
This is warped, average Stanford grad is well off but not supercar level finances.
Before launching a GoFundMe for Elon, consider that when it’s that much money Elon doesn’t really have a problem, the bankers do. No matter what happens, Elon is going to be just fine.
Only if you consider that your reputation doesn't matter ... (and I mean beyond just the 'yes people')
In this instance, the guys reputation is already trash binned.
Right, but when it comes to their branding stuff, I would expect the company to either store it (if they have enough space somewhere) or move it straight to trash. Selling their corporate logos for 25 USD looks like they are being liquidated and closing the shop. I can't understand how someone even come up with such idea ...
Companies do this sort of stuff all the time. Loads of companies sell merch, and even very brand-sensitive companies will sell old equipment for fans/nostalgia (see: Disneyland selling old animatronics and ride vehicles). They aren't selling it for 25 USD anyway, it's a start price at an auction. I listed my iPad at a $0.01 start price, but that doesn't mean I'm broke and need the penny :)
You have a good point. That said selling merch or auctioning vintage equipment doesn't feel the same as what is happening here. If they just stored it somewhere and auctioned it few years later, it would send a completely different message.
Selling off a twitter bird statue makes it look bad. What a signal that the company doesn't believe in itself anymore.
I'm not one of Elon's fans, trust me on that. But I do enjoy different perspectives to things. And this sure seems like Elon doesn't give a f*ck about people, he's honestly trying to assemble the smallest team necessary to keep Twitter going, in whatever direction he wants it to go. So yeah he's gotten a lot of criticism but I believe there's a different perspective here of a ruthless businessman just doing anything…
He's "assembled" a team of H1Bs who can't quit, but he comes from apartheid money so it's just the old family business model redux.