[mikkergp]

Elon Musk had to sell $4 billion dollars in Tesla stock in order to keep Twitter afloat. I’m not disagreeing with the core premise of the article really, nor am I really challenging Musk’s genius! but Musk can say fuck you to everybody because he has fuck you money! If he is a genius it is is in understanding the whole context, not in the individual risks he takes.

> Elon somehow is able to cut through all that BS and ship a new feature in just a week to all his users. How? What does he know that the rest of the industry don't? I think he understands something that might sound obvious on the surface: Twitter is just a fucking website. Literally no one will die if they fuck up.

Sure if your company can survive without revenue or reputation, go for it! It’s just a fucking website.

Yes we need more bold leaders driving change, but if almost any other CEO had done this the company would be dead already.

[papito]

"Just a fucking website" is what Elon thought when he asked for code reviews. Just a few Perl CGI scripts stitched together by some Bash and some CRON jobs, fourth largest system in the world by traffic. You know, a website!