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I wonder how this jives with his stated plan to lay off a lot of people? If he wants to implement that he'll need a lot more engineers and related support staff.

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I think this was mostly bluster, sure hell have to lay off a lot of people to change the company direction but his pitch to investors said the company would grow to like 12000 people.

Then he's in real trouble because he's taken on a whole lot more loans, and Twitter is not growing that quickly and liable to actually shrink now. The US market for it is saturated.

If expenditure (hiring) goes up and he's not finding revenue then that's the end sooner rather then later.

Yeah, he’s said a lot of conflicting things and put himself in a precarious position. I both wouldn’t be truly surprised if he grows twitter nor if he laid 75% of people off on Monday.

It should be noted that there's no evidence that Elon ever said that.

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