Serious answer: with all the financial, social, political, and org constraints he's introduced into the picture, there really is only one option: a breakthrough differentiating technology nobody else can replicate. The "hardcore engineering" org idea better deliver a moonshot
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Moonshot needed = 0.13 time machines
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The more trust you burn through, the bigger the invention gap you create and have to fill. If you burn through enough trust, the only invention that can save you is a time machine.
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Status quo ante at lower cost is not really an option here. He has 13b in new debt to service, and a private stock that would now probably be realistically worth like $10. Cutting labor is likely not enough to even return to profitability, let alone justify the purchase valuation
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Here's an alternative case: all he has to do is survive what he's done and he'll be hailed as the turnaround artist of the century justified or not. Cutting 80% of staff without a firm exploding is an achievement!
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XApp built around payments and tiktok/YouTube competing video with paid reach and creator revenue percentages. He has an on-the-nose history of publicly posing goals and going straight after them. No reason to suspect he’s not headed this way. There may be AI MacGuffins. t.co/RCwidrIZ1N
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Elon has squandered social capital at an even faster rate and financial capital, which is quite an accomplishment



