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Fingers crossed that todayโ€™s twitter layoffs are the trough and there might be some good things starting in a week or two.
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The persistent danger is all these signs of management by woke-derangement-syndrome. Heโ€™s blaming ad revenue drops on activism?? Thatโ€™s notโ€ฆ a promising thought process to guide a turnaround. You donโ€™t get to creative leaps starting with totalizing political purge missions.
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One thing thatโ€™s just sinking in for me is the degree to which Musk is more PE turnaround guy than startup guy. He goes after *old* industries and distressed assets. He bought old Toyota-GM factory for Tesla. Tried to buy Russian rockets before betting on Tom Mueller.
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How rockefeller? Oil refining as an industry barely existed before he stepped in to create it. Carnegie developed the scaled integrated steel plant out of the small-scale artisan steel industry. I'd say they were early stage. Rockets and cars (including EVs) are ~100y old
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I think it's actually easier to innovate for some personalities with more people who take care of the shit you don't want to think about so you can focus on the core problems. See: Gwynne Shotwell who like 80% of SpaceX roll-up to.