Parag Agrawal Texts Elon Musk
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And here are the cheerleaders saying B is right, B's a hero, B's our man.
Leaving whether or not Parag Agrawal is worth the suit he wears for another comment, he was definitely right that Musk was causing harm with his tweets. Again.
Also highlighting how all-over-the-place Musk has been from the beginning re: twitter. Signing an accelerated contract for $44B one day and wanting out the next is nothing new in this process, which has been chaotic from the get-go.
And I said Porsche. The quintessential luxury brand, not Ford or GM. Yes I know that people love their Porsches and are willing to spend money to keep them around and also collect them, but still it's crazy that a company which should be the backbone of the industrial economy still hasn't matched the number of Porsches.
Twitter is a Tesla without the shameless hype and constant astroturfing and manufactured consensus.
1) Being practical, not purely aspirational
2) Not burning more money than they make
3) Not constantly requiring capital raises
4) Not needing government subsides and corporate welfare
Musk is 50 and hasn't managed to light up all the 4 requirements at the same time. Enough with the BS. Especially here people should be skeptical because game recognizes game. In SV all the aspirational stuff is vaporware and BS. Mars, tunnels and brain comms. All BS.
True that they didn't get anything done and that they suck (I mean personally I hate twitter and almost everything about).
But in fairness a statement like 'what did you get done this week' is what would I believe be called 'parental'. Similar to a parent complaining that a child is not cleaning up their room or 'playing games' (back prior to video games).
Must doesn't want to actually have a conversation and understand what is going on he just wants to display his power in a stupid way. With a put down as if there is even going to be an answer to 'in a week'.
10/10
Twitter has a lot of potential but major cultural and directional change is needed at the company, it's become too much of echo chamber for one demographic being progressive liberals and cancel culture.
In the early days of twitter, one of my former companies had ALOT of success with niche lead conversions to their SAAS. Twitter used to be a critical part of their sales funnel. I used to be able look at customer conversion data, and tell exactly what year the target market started checking out of twitter.
I think there is still a strong market for extremely short-form content like tips/tricks, daily anecdotes, jokes, etc for users. We all have times in the day , where we are stuck waiting for a couple mins for something like a keurig or starbucks. This is where short-form content is king, and can drive engagement effectively to other services.
The good thing of standing up to bullies in a privileged place like SF is that there is essentially no downside, only missed upside.
Also talking about missed upside...once your net worth is 10M (Parag should be there I think) you have "fuck you money" special powers over everybody including people like Musk, Bezos, Gates etc.
There is no amount of money that would convince a mentally stable and financially secure person to deal with these bullies bullshit.
Show them the finger without looking back, never love your passions more than you love yourself and your mental health.
That's way less than even yearly compensation as Twitter CEO.
For me that number could be around 100k because I have no problems overriding my passions in order to not deal with bullies BS.
For some people their passions are strong so they need a higher number.
For some unfortunate people there is no number and put up with bullies because some craft has penetrated their brain so much that they cannot stop doing it .
10m is not fuck you money in sf.
$10m is a monumental amount of money for one person to have, even in SF.
But I guess in that case you might as well take the bag of money and go live not in sf.
You’re being caught.
What you and deluded Musk call "bots" are the same demographics which creates throwaways on Reddit and also on here just to answer a comment which enraged them.
It's logical, and also proven elsewhere. It always amazes me the logical leap that cult members are willing to go through in order to elevate the cult leader who can't do no wrong.
Regarding Twitter's failure to disclose the number of bots. Musk is well within his rights to squeeze the tomato before he makes a price offer.