whelk Posted 26 April, 2022 Share Posted 26 April, 2022 Odd fella but worth a few bob though. Also probably closest to Bond villain type megalomaniac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyle04 Posted 26 April, 2022 Share Posted 26 April, 2022 Sounds like an aftershave. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lighthouse Posted 26 April, 2022 Share Posted 26 April, 2022 Wonderful to see an African American achieving so highly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 26 April, 2022 Share Posted 26 April, 2022 (edited) Anybody who calls their children "X AE A-XII" and "Exa Dark Sideræl" is obviously playing with a full deck. Edited 27 April, 2022 by badgerx16 makes more sense now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmes_and_Watson Posted 26 April, 2022 Share Posted 26 April, 2022 I'd not trust my orbital death ray to anyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan The Flames Posted 29 April, 2022 Share Posted 29 April, 2022 On 26/04/2022 at 18:23, kyle04 said: Sounds like an aftershave. That's Eton Musk. Base notes of montecristo, with top notes of burnt Chateau Lafite Rothschild and a lingering smell of corruption. For the under educated and over confident man in your life. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Luke Posted 29 April, 2022 Share Posted 29 April, 2022 Definitely a Bond villain. Does he own a white fluffy cat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 30 October, 2022 Author Share Posted 30 October, 2022 Such a cunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 30 October, 2022 Share Posted 30 October, 2022 20 minutes ago, whelk said: Such a cunt But he said that now he owns the company it would become a bastion of 'free speech'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 30 October, 2022 Author Share Posted 30 October, 2022 1 hour ago, badgerx16 said: But he said that now he owns the company it would become a bastion of 'free speech'. Guy is such an altruist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farawaysaint Posted 30 October, 2022 Share Posted 30 October, 2022 25 minutes ago, whelk said: Guy is such an altruist He is also firing people in batches to avoid Californian WARN laws which require a 60 day notification for mass layoffs to avoid paying severance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 1 November, 2022 Author Share Posted 1 November, 2022 Becomes a bigger prick by the day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 Twitter closes offices over 'sabotage fears' as 'more employees resign' (msn.com) Seems like a great boss 😕 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerx16 Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 What odds on Twitter going out of business ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 I read some commentary this week that this was possibly his plan from the start. Massively slim down the workforce as quickly as possible, take all the flak for being evil and then appoint a new CEO who has a fresh start whilst he keeps an eye on things from afar. Would be interesting to see how things pan out eventually but the fact that twitter is still operational with thousands of employees less probably suggests that many of them weren't that necessary to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farawaysaint Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 9 minutes ago, hypochondriac said: I read some commentary this week that this was possibly his plan from the start. Massively slim down the workforce as quickly as possible, take all the flak for being evil and then appoint a new CEO who has a fresh start whilst he keeps an eye on things from afar. Would be interesting to see how things pan out eventually but the fact that twitter is still operational with thousands of employees less probably suggests that many of them weren't that necessary to begin with. I saw a great analogy about how if you fire your mechanic you can keep driving your car but if it breaks down or need a tune up you’re a bit buggered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 20 minutes ago, farawaysaint said: I saw a great analogy about how if you fire your mechanic you can keep driving your car but if it breaks down or need a tune up you’re a bit buggered. That would be an issue is you fired every single mechanic but sounds like they still have quite a few thousand employees still. Guess we will see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skintsaint Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 1 hour ago, badgerx16 said: What odds on Twitter going out of business ? Hopefully, then Instagram and TikTok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Luke Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 Closing it down would be a quick way to lose £44 billion or what ever it was he paid for it - can't imagine he is going to do that. I'd go with the new CEO scenario. Who is going to want to work for him now though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farawaysaint Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 40 minutes ago, Saint Luke said: Closing it down would be a quick way to lose £44 billion or what ever it was he paid for it - can't imagine he is going to do that. I'd go with the new CEO scenario. Who is going to want to work for him now though? The same type of people who enjoy working for Tesla or SpaceX I guess despite his demands on them. There are plenty of people I imagine who would love to have Twitter on their CV. The question is more now whether the absolute best Silicon Valley have to offer will want to work their anymore given how most tech companies treat their employees vs the changes at Twitter. Probably helps as well that right now given the layoffs throughout tech that it’s not really a job seekers market right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystic Force Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 Back in the day Jack Welch was famous for running GE with a policy of firing the lowest performing 10% each year. The net effect of this was that the most talented engineers avoided applying to the company as they did not want to deal with this hassle, where as it tended to attract the self important blow hards. GE is now a shadow of the company it was having divested of most of it units. Engineering and scientificly minded individuals are not necessarily the most gregarious individuals and being thrown into a dog eat dog environment won't bring out the best and will probably drive them to go elsewhere, leaving you with a B team. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, farawaysaint said: The same type of people who enjoy working for Tesla or SpaceX I guess despite his demands on them. Im not sure. Both Tesla and Space X are very technical. Musk cant interefere too much in the design or production engineering because he doesnt have the knowledge or skills. By contrast, everybody and their dog has a view on how social media should be run and thinkks they know best. I wouldnt be surprised if he fucks it up quite badly. Edited 18 November, 2022 by buctootim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 4 hours ago, Saint Luke said: Closing it down would be a quick way to lose £44 billion or what ever it was he paid for it - can't imagine he is going to do that. I'd go with the new CEO scenario. Who is going to want to work for him now though? He is staring a £44b loss in the face - the bloke is bonkers. Not savvy just lucky with Tesla when the world started to go electric. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farawaysaint Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 37 minutes ago, Toadhall Saint said: He is staring a £44b loss in the face - the bloke is bonkers. Not savvy just lucky with Tesla when the world started to go electric. I don’t think he’s on a he hook for $44bn. $8bn is outside parties including the Saudi crown Prince for $2bn if I recall. So only $36bn or so 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 I can't remember anything comparable to this. Buy a company at well over price, then decimate it. I'd love to see his business plan. Nuts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raging Bull Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 Twatter will become an all in 1 app with payments n’all. Elon comes across (especially with this) as a little unhinged, but given his history with things like PayPal and his admiration for WeChat, I can’t see anything else happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 18 November, 2022 Author Share Posted 18 November, 2022 10 hours ago, hypochondriac said: I read some commentary this week that this was possibly his plan from the start. Massively slim down the workforce as quickly as possible, take all the flak for being evil and then appoint a new CEO who has a fresh start whilst he keeps an eye on things from afar. Would be interesting to see how things pan out eventually but the fact that twitter is still operational with thousands of employees less probably suggests that many of them weren't that necessary to begin with. You realise he is taking out the moderation capacity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan The Flames Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 The Elon is a genius crowd are trying to spot the brilliance in his twitters moves, where it's just good old fashion cost cutting, just more showy and chaotic. Surley for 44bn he could have built his own twitter from the ground up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 18 November, 2022 Share Posted 18 November, 2022 1 hour ago, whelk said: You realise he is taking out the moderation capacity? I think it's too early to say what's going to happen. Seems to be working so far with thousands of less employees despite people swearing blind that it would have collapsed already it was obvious that twitter had quite a few employees that didn't need to be there. Looks like he's reinstated a few accounts that were wrongly terminated already so that's a positive. I'm hoping he now removes ridiculous rules like being banned for so called dead naming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suewhistle Posted 19 November, 2022 Share Posted 19 November, 2022 There's evidence of engineers going too, faults not being fixed and the app response slowing down as measured by independent websites. It will be interesting to see what happens during the busy period of the world cup. Musk is part of a long tradition of rich people who become media barons to control opinion and discourse although it's difficult to say how much he's paid against how much debt has been loaded on to the company. I've never used Twitter, but Hypochondriac only mentions being worried about not being able to dead name which as far as I can see is just being gratuitously offensive to the person concerned, so no surprise there. If he tells us who he means by wrongly terminated I suspect we won't be surprised by the list either. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexLaw76 Posted 19 November, 2022 Share Posted 19 November, 2022 Is twitter dead yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 19 November, 2022 Share Posted 19 November, 2022 7 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said: Is twitter dead yet? Surely you would be one of the first to know? If it does die, where are you going to find stuff to post on here? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexLaw76 Posted 19 November, 2022 Share Posted 19 November, 2022 13 minutes ago, sadoldgit said: Surely you would be one of the first to know? If it does die, where are you going to find stuff to post on here? Might try the guardian 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexLaw76 Posted 20 November, 2022 Share Posted 20 November, 2022 On 18/11/2022 at 18:18, Toadhall Saint said: He is staring a £44b loss in the face - the bloke is bonkers. Not savvy just lucky with Tesla when the world started to go electric. Twitter is still working, as of writing this post. madness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 20 January, 2023 Author Share Posted 20 January, 2023 See the man baby freak has blocked APIs from 3rd Party Apps like Echofon and Tweetbot. I never understood anyone using the native Twitter app. Another genius move to lower the Twitter user base. Go genius go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plastic Posted 20 January, 2023 Share Posted 20 January, 2023 On 20/11/2022 at 10:39, AlexLaw76 said: Twitter is still working, as of writing this post. madness A good investment then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 7 March, 2023 Author Share Posted 7 March, 2023 Ever the charmer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexLaw76 Posted 12 April, 2023 Share Posted 12 April, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whelk Posted 18 November, 2023 Author Share Posted 18 November, 2023 Wouldn’t be too keen to get into one of his rockets anytime soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan The Flames Posted 18 November, 2023 Share Posted 18 November, 2023 Isn't that meant to be a success for them, further than last time and data to learn from. It's the tech bro move fast and break things approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a1ex2001 Posted 3 December, 2023 Share Posted 3 December, 2023 On 18/11/2022 at 11:19, badgerx16 said: What odds on Twitter going out of business ? Won’t happen as it is effectively owned by Saudi (they fronted the cash for Elon) so there is no way it goes under anytime soon. They might fire old Musky though and install a CEO who isn’t quite such a ‘character’ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexLaw76 Posted 3 December, 2023 Share Posted 3 December, 2023 7 minutes ago, a1ex2001 said: Won’t happen as it is effectively owned by Saudi (they fronted the cash for Elon) so there is no way it goes under anytime soon. They might fire old Musky though and install a CEO who isn’t quite such a ‘character’ https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/how-will-elon-musk-pay-twitter-2022-10-07/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 4 December, 2023 Share Posted 4 December, 2023 I dont hate all white people, but he's a fucking prick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintsLoyal Posted 4 December, 2023 Share Posted 4 December, 2023 Hes a total ballon head although i do wonder if his autism makes him that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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