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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by defrost »

gonzo41 wrote: post #17
SilverBirch wrote: post #13

This is pretty unsurprising, they're not really going to raise any serious money from this (what do we reckon? 1FTE Salary at most?) but they've got office space for 7.5k people and less than 3k less. Musk keeps saying "If you code come to the 10th floor" - which basically implies that their entire team of engineers fit onto 1 floor of the building and that there a load of empty floors now that don't need kitchens or…

Wouldn't it just be smarter to sublet the space and fill up the building. Rather than having empty floors on a building you barely use.

There's more than the whiff of a move to Texas in the wind.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by LightG »

defrost wrote: post #21
gonzo41 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't it just be smarter to sublet the space and fill up the building. Rather than having empty floors on a building you barely use.

There's more than the whiff of a move to Texas in the wind.

By the time they make the move, they'll be able to fit all the staff in a campervan.

They can take a road trip over to Texas.

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Post by tkiolp4 »

bhouston wrote: post #9
kzrdude wrote: post #4

Selling off a twitter bird statue makes it look bad. What a signal that the company doesn't believe in itself anymore.

If you have less offices you have less needs for corporate branding. If you were to consolidate all branding into the remaining offices it would take up too much space. You can not be sentimental about this stuff.

If there is only one thing business and companies should be sentimental about is about their origins. No room for sentimental stuff when doing anything else. Twitter is employing humans and the end of the day, not robots.

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Post by nemo44x »

sethd wrote: post #20
ShivShankaran wrote: post #5

I am struggling to think how Elon is going to pay the interest on the loan he took for buying Twitter. On other hand his collateral , tsla stock, is crashing. He got carried away to make this purchase during the rising tide of covid bull market. I suspect this is going to severely affect both tsla and twtr

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I think it’s because his first name is unique and he’s extremely famous. If his name was “Bob” then everyone would probably call him “Musk”.

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Post by dag11 »

sethd wrote: post #20
ShivShankaran wrote: post #5

I am struggling to think how Elon is going to pay the interest on the loan he took for buying Twitter. On other hand his collateral , tsla stock, is crashing. He got carried away to make this purchase during the rising tide of covid bull market. I suspect this is going to severely affect both tsla and twtr

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It's a pretty unique first name, and I feel like people (online, and IRL) refer to him by either first or last name 50% of the time.

Sergey Brin also comes to mind. Unique name, people don't really say "Brin". Just Sergey, given the correct context.

I don't think this is a case of people thinking they're "best buds with the man," like when people rarely referred to Jobs as "Steve."

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Post by nigerian1981 »

sethd wrote: post #20
ShivShankaran wrote: post #5

I am struggling to think how Elon is going to pay the interest on the loan he took for buying Twitter. On other hand his collateral , tsla stock, is crashing. He got carried away to make this purchase during the rising tide of covid bull market. I suspect this is going to severely affect both tsla and twtr

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Michael instead of Jackson. Elton and not John. Perhaps it’s because Elon is quite a unique name.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by nemo44x »

This reminds of the .com crash days so much. There were endless auctions and sales of office furniture, etc. I don’t even think a lot of it got sold as demand was so low and supply so high. I heard stories of people buying chairs that cost $1k for $25, etc.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by arkitaip »

kzrdude wrote: post #4

Selling off a twitter bird statue makes it look bad. What a signal that the company doesn't believe in itself anymore.

Musk doesn't seem to believe in this version of Twitter and therefore has no issues dismantling it. There's still lots of damage done to Twitter the employer but I don't think it matters in the long run: there are always suckers who are willing to work for despotic leaders.
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