Fingers crossed that today’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. He’s blaming ad revenue drops on activism?? That’s not… a promising thought process to guide a turnaround. You don’t get to creative leaps starting with totalizing political purge missions.
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One thing that’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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I don't think it was a conscious pivot, but what started as a casual acquisition/turnaround idea with some spicy culture-war potential is now entirely a vehicle for politics. A sort of de facto third political party rather than a business.
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When 99.999% of the economy is predictable profit based min/maxing why is it automatically so bad when we have a potential situation for something different?
Embrace the axe grinding! It will become more common as late stage capitalism continues unfolding

