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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by [deleted] »

sorcerer-mar wrote: post #29
CyberMacGyver wrote: post #4

One time they let her speak publicly it turned out to be a disaster. She never had any say and worst part is she was not even a good fall guy, it was clear who’s pulling the strings. The most immaterial and inconsequential hire ever. I love all the replies on Twitter thanking her but during her time the valuation dropped 80% and they were suing advertisers for not advertising. Remarkably inept.

It's weird that you say both she had no material power and also seem to imply the valuation drop and lawsuits were due to her ineptitude? Anyway she volunteered to be a puppet for a man who is clearly off the rails and her legacy will forever be stained.

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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by delusional »

bananapub wrote: post #59

edit: not sure why my ctrl-f 'grok' missed it, maybe I hadn't let the nytimes modal load thing load the bottom of the article. how fascinating that the NY Times didn't find any room to mention in the article that despite this: > She did not provide a reason for her departure. it might possibly be related to the Elon's custom-tuned Grok LLM spent the last twenty four hours becoming even more Nazi-y? seems fairly relev…

The Nazi robot is probably a good signal to get out.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mdasen »

mingus88 wrote: post #56
Xiol32 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arguably a competent person wouldn't have persisted in a role where it was obvious they were not able to make a meaningful difference.

Can’t speak for her, obviously, but personally I tend to wait to make my exit once I know the role is not working out If I were in her shoes, I would have known I was going to leave during the worst of his tantrums, but I would have timed my exit for a more graceful moment. Dramatically bailing out during a storm would not be a good look for an exec who wants another key role somewhere else

If she were trying to time it, this timing seems weird. This is literally the day after Grok kept posting anti-semitism, praising Hitler, and calling itself MechaHitler. This might not be the least graceful moment for an exit, but there were so many more graceful exit times.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by mumbisChungo »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #102
jeffbee wrote: post #25

Have any of the people who noisily joined X to make a big impact fast actually had a big impact over any time frame? Remember when G. Hotz said he was going to fix Twitter search in 6 weeks, and then it turned out that G. Hotz is just another midwit like anyone else and Twitter search is still as bad as ever? Yaccarino said they were going to transform Twitter into the "everything app" with payments, marketplaces, an…

Twitter is a graveyard being propped up grudgingly by people who don't want to have fewer followers elsewhere, and enthusiastically by other people as way to virtue signal alliance with the ownership's political incorrectness. It has no true value to anyone. It was going downhill already before the new ownership and for completely apolitical reasons.

Change a few words and this describes every social platform including this one. Your comment is evidence, and so is this one.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by djeastm »

rvz wrote: post #86
Hoasi wrote: post #50

X has been nothing short of an exercise in brand destruction. However, despite all the drama, it still stands, it still exists, and it remains relevant.

..and 3 years later has a combined valuation with xAI of $113B. Those waiting for X to collapse are going to wait a lot longer than the original 6 months that it was predicted to collapse after the November 2022 takeover.

>..and 3 years later has a combined valuation with xAI of $113B.

This might be like Stacey King, a Chicago Bulls player, jokingly claiming he and Michael Jordan "combined to score 70 points" on a night when Jordan scored 69 points

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by CyberMacGyver »

rvz wrote: post #86
Hoasi wrote: post #50

X has been nothing short of an exercise in brand destruction. However, despite all the drama, it still stands, it still exists, and it remains relevant.

..and 3 years later has a combined valuation with xAI of $113B. Those waiting for X to collapse are going to wait a lot longer than the original 6 months that it was predicted to collapse after the November 2022 takeover.

xAI tried to raise $20 billion in equity in April but wound up with only $5 billion & had to issue $5 billion in junk bonds last week. You can value yourself $44 billion but the market doesn’t think it’s anywhere close

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by delusional »

philipallstar wrote: post #57
hackyhacky wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Not defending Elon or the infobot but my theory is that by leaving that LLM unfiltered people have learned how to gamify and manipulate it into having a fascist slant. We don't need a theory that explains how Grok got a fascist slant, we know exactly what happened: Musk promise to remove the "woke" from Grok, and what's left is Nazi. [1] [1] https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/08/tech/grok-ai-antisemitism

> we know exactly what happened The price of certainty is inaccuracy.

So the only way to be accurate is to vaguely gesture at hodgepodge theories and suggestions that people "do their own research"?

Surely you can be both accurate and certain, otherwise you should just shut up and be right all the time.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by babypuncher »

jauntywundrkind wrote: post #109
sorcerer-mar wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's weird that you say both she had no material power and also seem to imply the valuation drop and lawsuits were due to her ineptitude? Anyway she volunteered to be a puppet for a man who is clearly off the rails and her legacy will forever be stained.

Really good call out. Hitting someone from above & below seems not quite square. In my view, there was plenty of opportunity to make a mark & do things, even with a ultra involved Musk. But this person didn't bring much product leadership, didn't have a vision for the product. Having good business relationships might have been its own core competency, but whether Linda's fault or no, suing and going after businesses…

I don't think this is what was happening. It's weird that people are thanking her when she functionally did nothing of value while the company has been spiraling. Either she was complicit in the whole thing, or she really did nothing at all. In either case, what is there for the users to thank?

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by NetOpWibby »

delusional wrote: post #101
abirch wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My question is where does she go from here? Like if she became my CEO, I'd really worry about my company/job.

To some other founder/acquirer that wants to maintain control while putting somebody else in the seat. You're acting like Elon is uniquely stupid.

Elon's level of stupid feels unique at first glance but then if you look at how many people elected the current president...well.
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