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by kcb 1259 days ago
I was a fan of Musk until only recently with the dealings with Twitter. Right off the bat treating peoples livelihoods as a joke was wrong and cruel. This isn't some sensationalized political story, he literally started off the acquisition carrying a sink into the Twitter HQ and thought it was hilarious.

But I still totally agree, arguments to downplay his role in Tesla are totally illogical. Founder or whatever, he took control of a company that was totally irrelevant and led it to 1+ million vehicle per year, 10s of billion revenue, and pretty undeniably caused a huge momentum shift in the industry.
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Centigonal 1259 days ago
he's had a similar attitude with employees at TSLA for over a decade now - the difference is everyone who joined Tesla knew what they were getting into.

But literally his first act as CEO of Tesla in 2008 was to lay off 20% of the company. He's always been very fire-happy.

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alfor 1259 days ago
He value truth more that the jobs of the former employees at Twitter.

The Twitter files tell us about the level of corruption going on with real implication on the live of way more people that the select few that worked at Twitter.

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