Comment on Mmusks new ideas

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why wasn’t it money? Are you saying he isn’t a greedy billionaire like all of the other tech CEOs?

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  • PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Twitter wasnt profitable and had net losses as it was losing hundreds of millions a year. Dorsey wanted to make twitter profitable while making it more inclusive and trusted. At the time he saw Elon as the best leader based on how he had led Tesla.

    Dorsey only held about 2% of the company. The only winners on that sale were the investors. All i was trying to say is if Elon had done nothing, the only winners would have been investors.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You are implying that Dorsey picked Musk to take over Twitter. He didn’t. Musk tried to do a pump-and-dump like he always does and he fucked around and found out. He even tried to back out of buying it. You’re basically telling me to ignore the whole history of the lead-up to Musk’s purchase in exchange for some conspiracy theory involving Jack Dorsey that doesn’t even make sense.

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      • PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sure Dorsey didnt single Elon out but he did say during the takeover that he believed he was the right one. Maybe that was for money but who the hell knows.

        Also, Elon tried backing out because the board refused Elons plans to get rid of spam bots. This was one for Elons major plans to revitalize twitter. Not a conspiracy theory here.

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