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Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by kokekolo »

jack_riminton wrote: post #258
msikora wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the reason is that he took the $100m in salary so he can pay as high tax as possible: "In early 2021, Haraldur sold Ueno to Twitter. In an agreement between him and Twitter, most of the purchase price was paid as salary to maximize the tax he would pay for the sale in Iceland. He chose to pay for tax out of respect to Iceland for the disability benefits he received. Per the agreement, he paid the second highest t…

And Haraldur knew that if Elon refused to pay him then Icelandic laws would mean they could freeze operations and seize assets of Twitter there. It's a shame Elon isn't able to utilise such intelligent and talented people!

Realistically, how much would this hurt Twitter? Looking at Elon now, he might just go with it.

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by jack_riminton »

kokekolo wrote: post #261
jack_riminton wrote: post #258

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And Haraldur knew that if Elon refused to pay him then Icelandic laws would mean they could freeze operations and seize assets of Twitter there. It's a shame Elon isn't able to utilise such intelligent and talented people!

Realistically, how much would this hurt Twitter? Looking at Elon now, he might just go with it.

Considering he tried to sell potted plants to employees, I’d say $100m would hurt like hell https://www.indy100.com/amp/elon-musk-sells-office-plants-tw...

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by ornornor »

pembrook wrote: post #29

It's insane how bad Elon stepped in it with this guy. While I'm sure there were many people at Twitter doing mostly nothing, he happens to publicly pick on a guy who single-handedly built one of the most well-respected branding agencies in the tech industry, and who also has debilitating muscular dystrophy. The optics could not be worse. I mean this guy is literally in a wheel chair. If you were a well-funded tech co…

> Elon

It irks me so much that everyone calls him Elon like we’re all pals with him and he’s just one of us.

He isn’t. I find him to be an insufferable douche, he’s probably a psychopath, and he’s just a despicable human overall.

His companies are remarkable though but they’ve been built on the sweat tears blood and exploitation of so many people that I don’t think they’re respectable.

But sure let’s keep calling him Elon like he’s just everyone’s friendly neighbor or uncle.

/end rant

Re: Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site

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Post by dzamo_norton »

mschuster91 wrote: post #146
danpalmer wrote: post #78

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I get it. Watching some of the videos of him giving tours around the SpaceX facilities, he comes across as a real first-principles thinker. So much of tech disruption is applying first-principles thinking to problems and coming up with better solutions. Given that he's so great at it, I can see why people look up to him for it, his companies are clearly successful for having built things from first-principles – elect…

> Is Telsa much better for its reinventing the car from first-principles? Not really, it was for a bit, but the vertical integration has so far borne out fairly low quality cars relative to their price. And yet, Tesla makes like 10x the profit of German car makers per vehicle sold [1]. The established car makers still , over a decade after the first Tesla rolled on the streets, haven't come close to realizing just ho…

Musk's ideas are both good and original. But the ones that are good are not original, and the ones that are original are not good.
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