> Elon may not succeed, but I hope he does and what he's doing is a necessary prerequisite.
Everything he's done so far reads like he's deliberately trying to destroy the company. The only reason I don't really think that's his intention is that I don't see how he could hope to benefit from it. But it doesn't make sense.
i have a suspicion that much of what he’s doing is just chest thumping for his new fan base, “look at how i do whatever i want. i behave how i want. they can’t stop me, i’m The Strongman!”
just red meat for that particular crowd who worship strongmen. tho if he’s even a fraction of the irrationality that he’s portraying, i completely agree, twitters in trouble.
The Twitter status quo was one of stagnation (took them ten years to ship edit to a handful of people) - they're a good example of how you can basically do everything wrong, but if you have product market fit it's hard to fail.
He's trying to pivot them into a focused company. I think his actions make sense in that context.
There's no context in which many of his actions make sense. He ranked people based on lines of code written, immediately fired thousands of them based on that objectively stupid metric, than immediately tried to rehire a bunch of them because the company couldn't function without them. "Random flailing" is the most charitable way to characterize that.
Everything he's done so far reads like he's deliberately trying to destroy the company. The only reason I don't really think that's his intention is that I don't see how he could hope to benefit from it. But it doesn't make sense.