Is Elon Beyond Reproach?
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Is Elon Beyond Reproach?
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#2> In both those companies, people die if the software doesn't work right.
Indeed: many people have been killed by Teslas running the half-baked Autopilot, and Teslas have a far worse safety profile than other new cars in their category.
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#3One user responded basically asking is Twitter a tech company which is a totally fair question, I would propose that there's at least a decent chance that running Twitter solely like a tech company will lead to... challenges.
And second, he seems to really hate this idea that founders are criticized by the plebes (https://nitter.net/paulg/status/1591098388317179908) . I get his overall thesis, that we should be constructive and optimistic for a better future and stop tearing people down, but is it so crazy to humanize the employees of companies, and not just their founders? Is it so crazy to want a better world where founders treat their employees with autonomy and respect, and criticize those who don't?
Also criticism can be a form of education, is it so wrong to think that Musk has something to learn here? I can’t imagine he wouldn’t think so, watching his interactions on Twitter, I think he’s even benefiting from the criticism!
Having been on the side of trying to do something unpopular, the worst kind of feedback you can get is no feedback at all.
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#4It doesn't seem like he's been doing a great job so far. But hey, maybe he's making the right decisions and no one really understand anything.
What even is the goal of a platform like twitter? Profitability? Something else?
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#5What Elon is doing right now with twitter is two-fold:
1) Getting rid of employees who are not a fit for a high-pressure, performance focused, environment, either by firing them directly or them voluntarily resigning due to stricter working conditions.
2) Iterating on the product to increase revenues.
1) results in massive cost savings and 2) increased revenues (with time).
This very much needed since twitter has been a commercial disaster for many years and is heading towards bankruptcy without drastic changes.
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#6Elon receives a disproportionate amount of hate. Nobody is perfect, but people seem to dwell on his mistakes, and ignore his.... gigantic successes. I'm not sure I would have given anyone with $8 a blue checkmark. But i've also never ran a company that put a rocket in space with astronauts on it. Elon is human, and Twitter was a failing business (it was losing Millions of dollars a day, that's failing). Drastic transformation is necessary.
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#7> In both those companies, people die if the software doesn't work right. Indeed: many people have been killed by Teslas running the half-baked Autopilot, and Teslas have a far worse safety profile than other new cars in their category.
Major oversight by Paul here. Elon is a knob and always will be. Soon nobody is going to want to work for him in any industry.
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#8If I buy this logic, and I also have eyes and can see how Elon is running Twitter, what should that tell me about his ability to competently run Tesla and SpaceX?
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#9This tweeter should stick to essays about lisp, about which his opinions seem more intelligent.
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#10Elon receives a disproportionate amount of hate. Nobody is perfect, but people seem to dwell on his mistakes, and ignore his.... gigantic successes. I'm not sure I would have given anyone with $8 a blue checkmark. But i've also never ran a company that put a rocket in space with astronauts on it. Elon is human, and Twitter was a failing business (it was losing Millions of dollars a day, that's failing). Drastic trans…
I'd say the hate is proportional to his own PR. Musk is clearly someone who likes the limelight. Plenty of CEOs fly under the radar of the public, any negativity or mistakes also fly under the radar or get rolled into "Company X did this bad thing".