"Here's the Musk playbook: Enter a field with very little competition. Claim that your new company will solve a massive, global problem or achieve a seemingly impossible goal. Raise money from a fervent group of true believers and keep them on the hook with flashy, half-baked product ideas. Suck up billions from the government. Underpay, undervalue, and overwork your employees. Repeat.
"Twitter
is the antithesis of an 'Elon Musk company.' It's an influential but
small player in a field that is dominated by giant, well-funded
competitors. The government is more likely to put the clamps on Twitter
than give it some windfall contract. And Twitter's employees have
options: They can leave and work for companies that treat them much
better than Musk ever would. [snip]
"There is no pivot in which Musk suddenly becomes serious and starts acting like a normal executive. The frenzied, callous, throwing-ideas-at-the-wall boss from hell you see on Twitter is the one people actually get in Musk world. It's always been that way. Somehow, during a bull market, in a decade when tech was on top of the world and he was the king of it — that style worked. Now it won't." -- Linette Lopez, writing in Insider about "Elon's Stale Playbook." Lopez's Twitter account was one of those suspended by free speech absolutist and absolute hypocrite Musk, and is yet to be reinstated.
Befitting his frenzied, abnormal conduct, Musk held a poll over the past 24 hours as to whether he should step down as CEO of Twitter. Here are the final results:
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 18, 2022
This has more to do with shareholders in Tesla and other companies reaching their limit as far as Musk's behavior and the damage he's done to their investments. He's doubtless heard from them.
BONUS:
"please, put me out of my misery" https://t.co/NEBCYYgI7e
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 19, 2022
