If every twitter employee made $150k, that would be about $1B with 7k employees. So at most 20% of revenue could have gone to paying salaries. Some layoffs may have made sense to adjust for post-covid but elon is obviously a cruel idiot being cruel to prove a point. He could have instead kept advertisers happy and moved infra to on-prem. Even if I am wrong and Elon was right, he could have taken 2023 to slowly reduce workforce in a way that didn't piss off users and advertisers. He is a terrible businessperson even if you don't give a shit about users or reputation and all that because he didn't value his money well and didn't look after Twitter's bottomline.
Even if his goal was to turn twitter into a conservative friendly place, he is so blunt, obtuse and uncalculating that he reminds me of Dr. Evil in his silliness. Is the reddit CEO trying to be "mini-me"? Birds of a feather I guess.
I get the netflix type of pissing people off, business is business. Even with Reddit, that was my perspectice, their api, who cares if they want to ruin it. But I gotta say, there are ways to cleverly backtrack and still appear to be in control.
For example, introduce tiered pricing and a free tier for api keys that are restricted and tied to a specific user account with limits in the number of subreddits under that user's control. Basic divide and conquer, please the volunteer mods and continue to piss off the for-profit front-ends. And then add pricing to the free tier after a year. Boil the frog slowly and all.
Their lack of sophistication really amuses me, how can people like this even manage to become a CEO? Must be whatever gives them confident to be so arrogant to begin with.
Even if his goal was to turn twitter into a conservative friendly place, he is so blunt, obtuse and uncalculating that he reminds me of Dr. Evil in his silliness. Is the reddit CEO trying to be "mini-me"? Birds of a feather I guess.
I get the netflix type of pissing people off, business is business. Even with Reddit, that was my perspectice, their api, who cares if they want to ruin it. But I gotta say, there are ways to cleverly backtrack and still appear to be in control.
For example, introduce tiered pricing and a free tier for api keys that are restricted and tied to a specific user account with limits in the number of subreddits under that user's control. Basic divide and conquer, please the volunteer mods and continue to piss off the for-profit front-ends. And then add pricing to the free tier after a year. Boil the frog slowly and all.
Their lack of sophistication really amuses me, how can people like this even manage to become a CEO? Must be whatever gives them confident to be so arrogant to begin with.