How could you forget publicly telling advertisers to “go fuck yourself”?
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Idk, you buy a brand and one of the largest social networks everywhere, then you perform some genius business moves:
- “Cut waste”, fire the bulk of your talent and hamper the capacity of your network.
- Break embedding for a while to disable reply visibility on the public web
- Ask developers and operators “how many lines of code they contributed” and to print it out
- You completely remove the iconic branding of your network, and do a botched job of redirecting.
- You reinstate trolls and right wing misinformation.
- You cheapen the verified label.
- You launch a streaming platform on the hampered infrastructure.
How is any of this supposed to be moves that any lender could expect a return from?
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
That’s a galaxy brain business move, too genius for the genius list.
GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I’m embarrassed to admit but I brought into the Musk hype early on. You know Tesla and SpaceX.
But the second he started talking about programming (something I know a lot about) I realized he doesn’t have a clue.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Electric vehicles and space exploration are two things that need to happen for humanity’s long term survival. It isn’t gullibility to applaud someone for moving either thing forward, even if they’re just the money guy. We live in a capitalist society, that is just what was going to happen short of another FDR or JFK restoring trust in American government.
It’s ignoring the evidence afterwards that is the problem, and you didn’t, so there’s nothing to be ashamed of.
GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Thank you, that’s very kind.
trolololol@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Makes me wonder how good he is at rocket business. And makes me wonder how good Boeing aerospace is if they make Elon look like a genius.
AA5B@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He ‘s sufficiently geeky to speak the language, to invest in things beyond the next quarter and be willing to take a risk in things not yet proven to be profitable. Those are good things for a ceo.
Maybe I give him too much credit (like I used to with Trump), but in the beginnings mining I assumed he was forced into twitter after running his mouth off into what could be securities fraud if he didn’t follow through. And he’s so lost
trolololol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“CEO is smart because he tried to look for profit in multiple quarters at the same time” would make a great headline at Forbes