I can give you many examples of unicorns that weren’t firing people one week after a takeover by a billionaire who doesn’t understand how account verification works.
Musk was firing useless departments (DEI, Human Rights, Ethics, Communications) -- Mostly rent-seeking roles that has no place in startups.
Musk also fired Engineers who weren't productive in the past two months. Musk has enough software expertise to see through people who bullshit and people who know their shit.
That's why the best Car Designer, the best rocket engineer, the best AI expert were all working for Tesla/SpaceX.
Is Musk clueless about Social Media? absolutely.
Do you think he isn't spending every waking second to figure out the nuances and deliver something amazing in 2-3 years?
This is where HN/Reddit/Blind/Media are clueless about Musk. They look at current state of Musk and mock him (they mocked him for his rocket dream, his electric car dream, they mocked his tents)
True to form and cluelessness, they are currently mocking his lack of expertise in creator economy and other social aspects of social media.
Let's try 2 years from now. Musk is a fast learner and has always pivoted when data shows him where he is wrong.
He will make plenty of mistakes and clueless media will be there to highlight that because there is an audience of clueless people who are thirsty for Elon Musk thrashing articles to feel good about themselves.
At the end of the day, Twitter will be successful, Elon will be a Trillionaire (from all his ventures) and there will be salty HN/Redditers who will still be mocking him in 2030 because he probably would be doing some stupid thing in some new industry
