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Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by Ericson2314 »

FredPret wrote: post #54
Ericson2314 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no evidence these changes are instigated by regular employees. This sort of stuff is usual driven by the the owners with larger stakes.

No profit = no business = no pay. Huge profits = rich business = famously huge FAANG pay.

Wages and profits are separate. Sure, equity vested to employees blurs that, but stock prices need not track profits either!

Employees may also rather coast than go through a stressful shakeup that quite likely won't succeed in bringing in profits.

Even if employees do want the shakeup, they are in no position to agitate for it. This would be a purely coincidental alignment of their desires with the agitating investors'.

Please understand the basics of how Capitalism works.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by yakshaving_jgt »

Spivak wrote: post #42
yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment seems to imply that anyone taking issue with Davis' racism is racist themselves, because they wouldn't otherwise notice if Davis were white. Please let me know if my interpretation of your comment is inaccurate, but if it isn't, then that's a pretty horrific rhetorical device that you're employing. Personally, I noticed this part because — according to the article — Davis was outspoken about diversity, a…

Oh no, you can absolutely rake this guy over the coals for being a racist asshole. Here's the problem: > He is Black and Asian, and was the first Black executive at Twitter to report directly to the CEO. Does this mention that he is outspoken about diversity? Or that he was brought on to promote diversity in the company in any way more than his existence? Nope, it's just a hey this guy is black and that is notable. S…

The authors of the article mentioned his race, but did not mention the race of any of the other nine Twitter staff listed in the article. So the authors of the article found the juxtaposition of his race and the criticisms against him to be noteworthy. Davis was also the only person mentioned in a critical light in the article.

> But you only even thought to look for that because they mentioned he's black.

You obviously have zero evidence for that.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by renewiltord »

robbintt wrote: post #51
spaetzleesser wrote: post #20

I always feel that most reorgs are done not because they lead to a fundamentally better structure but just to shake up things and break some managers' fiefdoms that are causing political problems. You could almost pick two or three structures and rotate every three years (which basically happens when leaders get replaced). After some decades in the industry I think any organizational structure will work if people are…

> Considering that corporations are basically internally run like communist planned economies This is interesting not because of accuracy but because thinking of counter examples is really interesting. I don't study businesses much, do you know of any counter examples?

You’ll find more of the independent moving parts thing in larger orgs that Katamari Damacy like Cisco.

But Coase’s Nature of the Firm postulates that a reason for a firm is to reduce transaction costs. Running as a planned economy inside is intentional.

Since Twitter is large, you’ll see that they’re counteracting this with the GM structure. Smart imho.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by tomohawk »

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #23

This part caught my attention: > Davis, previously a director of product design at Facebook, joined Twitter in 2019 to lead its design team. He is Black and Asian, and was the first Black executive at Twitter to report directly to the CEO. The company had touted him as a hard-charging leader who would detoxify the platform, but he was also criticized by some employees for what they said was a blunt, aggressive manage…

He's the same guy who tweeted this:

https://tennesseestar.com/2021/11/30/new-twitter-ceo-why-sho...

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by jwogrady »

trjordan wrote: post #6

Contrast to Apple, which uses a fully functional model: https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovatio... I find this evolution fascinating. It makes sense to me that the GM model worked for so long. If much of a company's advantages were cultural, you could put together teams that could out-compete startups within a large organization. Procter and Gamble needs to enter new markets with new products to…

Avoiding the humiliation of senate subpoenas seems to be motivating the most recent rash of FAANG restructurings. No founder, deserved or otherwise, would willingly subject themselves to the indignation of senators making names for themselves. Google saw the stitches on the fast ball and had Pichai prepped and ready go, but apparently Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Zuckerberg were far more confident, and the results of their testimony spoke for itself.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by boibombeiro »

cblconfederate wrote: post #37
yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #23

This part caught my attention: > Davis, previously a director of product design at Facebook, joined Twitter in 2019 to lead its design team. He is Black and Asian, and was the first Black executive at Twitter to report directly to the CEO. The company had touted him as a hard-charging leader who would detoxify the platform, but he was also criticized by some employees for what they said was a blunt, aggressive manage…

Incidentally i hate the new redesigns of everything to have black and white buttons only. I end up constantly double pressing them because i never know which one is pressed. Same with youtube. Whoever started this trend should be fired.

I think their previous design was counter intuitive and we just got used to it. The changes they made actually makes more sense to new users.

For example. In the past, they used filled buttons to indicate unselected option (like follow button). Now it's filled when you are already following.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by lbotos »

tomohawk wrote: post #65
yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #23

This part caught my attention: > Davis, previously a director of product design at Facebook, joined Twitter in 2019 to lead its design team. He is Black and Asian, and was the first Black executive at Twitter to report directly to the CEO. The company had touted him as a hard-charging leader who would detoxify the platform, but he was also criticized by some employees for what they said was a blunt, aggressive manage…

He's the same guy who tweeted this: https://tennesseestar.com/2021/11/30/new-twitter-ceo-why-sho...

This site.... is pretty biased and it appears they intentionally chose to not connect the quote to it's source. It's from a Jon Stewart segment: https://www.cc.com/video/vz5edd/the-daily-show-with-jon-stew...

Not sure if you just grabbed the first source or if you regularly get news from there, but if you do, you are being fed a pretty strong narrative that is doing a poor job of telling the story.

Here's the independent with slightly more context: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twitter-pa...

Edit: As an aside, on the biggest problems on the internet which twitter itself perpetrates is what I call "this" culture. No one has to pontificate, just an empty quote or THIS and we have no more context. We are left to assume and depending on your bias one will just self-reinforce:

- if you agree with the quote: "he's one of us, and he gets it!

- if you disagree with the quote: "He's not one of us, and he's shown his true colors!"

Depending on the audience I've seen people of all stripes avoid adding actual commentary and use the same quote to represent "both sides" as an example... fascinating stuff.

Re: Twitter’s new CEO announces major reorganization

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Post by lazyeye »

jwogrady wrote: post #66
trjordan wrote: post #6

Contrast to Apple, which uses a fully functional model: https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-organized-for-innovatio... I find this evolution fascinating. It makes sense to me that the GM model worked for so long. If much of a company's advantages were cultural, you could put together teams that could out-compete startups within a large organization. Procter and Gamble needs to enter new markets with new products to…

Avoiding the humiliation of senate subpoenas seems to be motivating the most recent rash of FAANG restructurings. No founder, deserved or otherwise, would willingly subject themselves to the indignation of senators making names for themselves. Google saw the stitches on the fast ball and had Pichai prepped and ready go, but apparently Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Zuckerberg were far more confident, and the results of their tes…

"the indignation of senators making names for themselves."

Or maybe just doing their job.

Nobody elected the leaders of big tech and its more than reasonable to hold them to account.

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