Elon Musk
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They say a good developer is 10x more productive than an average developer. So you could theoretically cut away 90% of your developers within the organization while only losing 10% of your effective capability. If you did that, you would need far less middle management, far fewer meetings about meetings, etc.
I don’t know that that’s the master plan, and I don’t think it’s a very intelligent way he’s going about it, but I can see how you could argue that a drastic headcount reduction might not be lethal for an organization like Twitter. What were all those people doing there? Certainly not adding features.
It should also be noted that you can effectively lose 90% of your capabilities by getting rid of your top 10%. The way things are going, you have to wonder if those star players are already gone.
- Many public tech companies needed to show continuos growth so the stock won't tank. In an era of zero interest, free money...grafician
- ...and now that Twitter is no longer public, the new owners are stripping it to the minimum.grafician
- For the rest of the tech companies still public, they scream "recession" and cut thousands - the same dead weight accumulated during the boom yearsgrafician
- Business 101, but everybody wants to have a voice these days = all this nonsense dramagrafician
- Yes including Elon Musk who by re-building in public wants all this attention...grafician
- My question: why the fuck anybody cares about how twitter is run as long as it works?!grafician
- You should care how quickly Amazon is burning out people: https://candor.co/ar…grafician
- But I never seen Bezos getting the attention for how Amazon was run, even tho' is considered one of the most toxic companies to work for
Oh wellgrafician - @monNom yeah it was probably 20% of the people doing 80% of the work?grafician
- Bezos is just as bad. Twitter is not just all developers. Content moderation, advertising, brand, legal etc.instrmntl
- very few developers in the layoffs, and good developers can go anywhere... why stick at a company run by a man who can fire you or tank the company on a whim.kingsteven
- It's just good business, it's like investing at the bottomgrafician
- Before posting and having an opinion on all this, I've followed all the people leaving twitter, it was nobody importantgrafician
- Key people are still there and most probably very handsomely rewarded
Twitter going to Mars...grafician - Perhaps you should al consider that the world now is more complex than it ever has been and that the days of making millions running an apache server are overjonny_quest_lives
- Whole lot of misplaced anger/projection on the "tech proletariat" who are often both highly skilled/educated far beyond these elon stans.jonny_quest_lives
- So it makes them feel better to label these ex Twitter engineers as lazy, incompetent and dumb because they will never reach that level of success themselves.jonny_quest_lives
- Much in the same way I critique eLoN... I myseld will never become a billionaire with so little charisma or talent. So it makes me feel good to hate on him.jonny_quest_lives
- That being said he signed up for the spotlight/criticism by wrapping himself up in this "Phony Stark" persona of his.jonny_quest_lives
- "Before posting and having an opinion on all this, I've followed all the people leaving twitter, it was nobody important
grafician"jonny_quest_lives - Why do u bother posting something so absurd as well as factually incorrect?jonny_quest_lives
- Mazdak Hamashi leaving is a significant blow... https://www.wired.co…jonny_quest_lives