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Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

trimbo wrote: post #586
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.

> her legacy will forever be stained Interesting. My hot take is 99% of the time non-founder CEOs end up on the dustbin of history, successful or unsuccessful. Terry Semel. John Akers. John Sculley, Carly Fiorina. Except among those of us in tech, all are now long forgotten failures. Even Gil Amelio, who made one of the most genius acquisitions ever, was fired and his name lost to the sands of time. My bet is nobody'…

I think the founders tend to have a love for the business and a long-term plan for it. Followup CEOs are more about the stock performance and happy to sell it for parts if it serves their bonus. Sundar and Satya took all of the strengths of those respective companies and burned them to the ground. Made a lot of money doing it, stockholders love them, but they're pale husks of their former businesses.

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Post by shkkmo »

lostlogin wrote: post #338
misiti3780 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it didnt drop 80%: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/19/value-elo...

Even if the valuation is the same (seems unlikely), a fairly small rate of inflation on that sum of money is likely to be a number that matters.

"lost money due to inflation" (or even "lost money compared to an equivalent investment is a basket of similar stocks" is very different claim than "lost 80% of value". Currently the stock is down less than 10% from the purchase price (41 billion vs 44 billion).

Down 10% vs 80% is the kind of egregious factual "error" that gets made so frequently around Musk, that it is hard to take any criticism at face value. You don't like the guy and want to call him out? Get your facts straight or you're being counter productive.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by Civitello »

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.

Perhaps if there was success she would have had no material power and not have been responsible for the success.

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Post by frankzinger »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #554
cm2012 wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter valuation dropped for two primary reasons: 1) Most tech valuations dropped about 50%-80% in between Elon's offer and Reddit formally accepting it. This was the end of the 2021 tech boom. 2) Elon being a moron and turning off brand advertisers in any way he can when direct response ads don't really work on the platform.

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The owner of Twitter sieg heiled twice in front of millions of viewers. There is no need for anybody else to prove anything.

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Post by edm0nd »

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…

sidenote: Twitter search isnt that bad when you compare it to the shit show that is reddit search. its basically never worked.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by edm0nd »

nickthegreek wrote: post #149
ujkhsjkdhf234 wrote: post #48

Good for her. Got paid a ton of money to be the fall guy and no one ever believed anything that went wrong with the company was her fault. That's a clean getaway in my book. Hopefully she can move on to something that isn't building Nazi chat bots.

pretty sure she did alot of reputational damage to herself along the way.

doubtful. Marissa Mayer literally killed Yahoo and still was able to get a new job and hold board member seats.

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

calmbonsai wrote: post #547

Let's be perfectly clear, given the ownership and board structure https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522... , the CEO of Twitter is a figurehead.

I don't understand your comment at all:

1. What is the relevance of posting that years old 8-K about Twitter? The corporate structure is totally different now, with xAI having acquired X Corp in March.

2. Regardless of that, X is a private company with a hired CEO (by "hired CEO" I mean as opposed to a founder CEO or family CEO). There are tons and tons of companies like this, and most of them have active, traditional CEOs. The ownership and board structure of X isn't the thing that implies that the CEO is a figurehead - I'd argue Musk's megalomania is what does that.

Re: Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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Post by [deleted] »

zero_shift wrote: post #459
mrweasel wrote: post #130

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More and more I think Musk managed to his take over of Twitter pretty successfully. X still isn't as strong a brand as Twitter where, but it's doing okay. A lot of the users who X need to stay on the platform, journalists and politicians, are still there. The only issue is that Musk vastly overpaid for Twitter, but if he plans to keep it and use it for his political ambitions, that might not matter. Also remember tha…

I cannot see how it was a success. 1. He overpaid by tens of billions. That is a phenomenal amount of money to lose on an unforced error. 2. Enough users, who produce enough content, have left to make X increasingly a forum for porn bots, scam accounts and political activists. It's losing its appeal as the place "where the news happens" and is instead becoming more niche. 3. The firings did not go well. X has struggl…

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Post by jeffbee »

edm0nd wrote: post #626
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…

sidenote: Twitter search isnt that bad when you compare it to the shit show that is reddit search. its basically never worked.

Reddit search is just Google, is it not?
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