Comment on Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself”

• Minarble@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did you watch the clip?

  Not what I would be looking for in a CEO.

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  • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t really see how that’s an answer to my question.

    Like, the vibes are bad? That’s what you’re saying? And what you want from a CEO is good vibes?

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    • Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If someone is so unhinged that he repedatly can’t control his language and emotions, it is a valid reason to suspect that these Person might have serious psychological Problems. So this Person might not be suiteble to perform his dutys as CEO of a Company. And he also shouldn’t because the Stress and Pressure that comes with this Postion might add to his Problem.

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      • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If someone is so unhinged that he repedatly can’t control his language and emotions

        Are you currently unhinged? Like, I’m not even sure what word you tried to spell here, but why should I not take this as a sign that you can’t control your language or emotions?

        Why should I think Musk can’t “control his language”? Because he said a dirty poo-poo word?

        it is a valid reason to suspect that these Person might have serious psychological Problems.

        Sorry, I just want to be clear, here. You’re raving at me that it’s Musk who might have “psychological problems”? And not you, who obviously can’t control yourself at all?

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    • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s a CEO. His job is to guide his company to make money. His actions are actively doing the opposite: he is causing his company to lose money.

      While this happens from time to time, a smart, presumably stable CEO reverses course and engages in damage control when this happens. Instead, Musk is doubling down hard, despite knowing full well this is likely to destroy the platform formerly known as Twitter.

      Look at it this way. You have an investment banker than handles investing a great deal of your money. You just found out said banker just made a series of awful decisions which caused the investments of several of their other clients to crash. They are unrepentant and refuse to take responsibility, instead telling those involved to go fuck themselves.

      Would you want that person to continue to handle your money?

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      • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        His actions are actively doing the opposite: he is causing his company to lose money.

        At Twitter? Sure, but so were the previous guy’s. It’s not actually clear that a social media company can generate revenue at all.

        I agree it seems pretty unlikely that Musk is going to turn it around but that’s because the outcome is probably impossible - it’s not possible for Twitter to make money.

        Tesla and SpaceX, his other companies, are making money. If you’re on the board of those then there’s no reason to wonder if Musk is causing the company to lose money because you can just look at revenues and see that he’s not.

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    • wieson@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, good decisions aren’t his forte, so what else is left there?

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      • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are they not? His companies are, on balance, profitable in sectors which were largely written off before he succeeded in them (new car companies, private space launch.)

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    • Minarble@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A bit of clear eyed professionalism would be a good start.

      What he has achieved in the past is in the past.

      Tesla is a major public traded company.

      Business is business.

      Your charismatic public facing CEO has turned from an asset to a liability?

      Punt him.

      Tesla is facing some headwinds, increasing competition in the EV space, reported troubles with some of its upcoming products, industrial disputes. Nothing that can’t be dealt with … If your CEO is not shitting the bed in public in another company and quite clearly under a lot of stress.

      How can he be providing the attention and care Tesla needs from its CEO and for that matter Space X etc etc

      More importantly how are the public, shareholders, customers viewing this? Do they think there is a loose unit in charge behaving irrationally and will that affect the confidence in the company?

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      • crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Your charismatic public facing CEO has turned from an asset to a liability?

        Has he? If you’re a shareholder of Tesla or SpaceX why would you think that?

        increasing competition in the EV space

        Didn’t Ford just cancel the F150 Lightning?

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  • Kanda@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What a ceo does or doesn’t do is immaterial

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• Laticauda@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  His behaviour is pretty self explanatory.

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