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Daniel Bohrer

@th0r5t3n @Gerego @brianstorms @rodhilton apparently he co-founded X.com, which later became PayPal

25 Dec 2022 at 13:15 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social
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Thorsten

@daniel_bohrer @Gerego @brianstorms @rodhilton No, it did not become PayPal. x.com merged with Confinity because Musk liked their simple payment system. They merged to become PayPal, the payment system was already invented without Musk.

25 Dec 2022 at 13:23 | Open on mastodon.online
Kl@rinettistische @ktion ❌

@th0r5t3n

inventing something and making it a billion dollar company requires two different kinds of genius.
Maybe Musk got the latter one?

@daniel_bohrer @Gerego @brianstorms @rodhilton

25 Dec 2022 at 15:16 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Daniel Bohrer

@logorok @th0r5t3n @Gerego @brianstorms @rodhilton you mean making Twitter a 1 billion dollar company out of a 44 billion dollar company? definitively! 🤡

25 Dec 2022 at 15:21 | Open on chaos.social
Kl@rinettistische @ktion ❌

@daniel_bohrer
no, I mean making a 1.5 B company out of Confinity.

But you are right. Losing 43 B and still owning more than all of us here combined is still an achievement

@th0r5t3n @Gerego @brianstorms @rodhilton

25 Dec 2022 at 15:27 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Thorsten

@logorok @daniel_bohrer @Gerego @brianstorms @rodhilton Yesno. He did successfully advertise himself, sold promised features he wasn't able to deliver, etc. It is a talent, but also a lack of moral and integrity, to an extent which *should* be prosecuted and punished.

Also, success *always* requires a bit of luck. He definitely had a large portion of that.

I wouldn't deny the marketing talent, though.

25 Dec 2022 at 17:17 | Open on mastodon.online
Roger Moore

@logorok @th0r5t3n @daniel_bohrer @Gerego @brianstorms @rodhilton
I think there's a lot to this. Musk is basically a salesman rather than an engineer. He can take an interesting idea and sell the hell out of it. One of the ideas he's sold the hell out of is his own genius.
The problem is that isn't what Twitter needs. Twitter had some serious problems, but lack of public awareness was not one of them.

25 Dec 2022 at 18:04 | Open on c.im
Bea Furniss

@VATVSLPR @logorok @th0r5t3n @daniel_bohrer @Gerego @brianstorms @rodhilton Suspect he’s skilled at selling a vision, which attracts competent employees who want to successfully deliver that vision. But the anecdotes I’ve heard suggest his other employees succeed by carefully managing Musk out of their processes. A skill Twitter staff have seemingly yet to acquire…

25 Dec 2022 at 21:27 | Open on mas.to
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