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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

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Daniel Bohrer

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

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

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.

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.

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…

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