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This feels very reminiscent of when Steve Jobs came back to Apple in an official CEO capacity. He laid off 3000 people in his first year as CEO and was ruthless with axing unnecessary projects and product lines. He also installed key NeXT employees into positions of influence. The rest is of course history. I'm curious to see how this plays out for Musk and Twitter.

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I bet he didn’t lay off 50% of the workforce in the first week.

They did lay off about a third of their workforce, albeit not 1 week after jobs returned: https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/29/1997-apple-bites-the-...

At the time, Gil Amelio was still CEO as well, so can’t necessarily pin this one solely on Jobs.

Very true. Furthermore I'm curious to see where Twitter will innovate moving forward. After S. Jobs "slashed and burned", he set his teams first on the iMac and then iPod in Aug. 1998 and Oct. 2001 respectively. I keep reading articles about how Musk wants to turn Twitter into an "app for everything" similar to WeChat in China. I'm a bit skeptical.

When you do a renovation, you don’t try and work around the existing structures. You demolish them and rip it down to the studs - to the “good bones” that hold it all up. Then and only then can you install your newly designed structure inside the old structure. This is how a rebuild is done.

There is absolutely no way they managed to do proper due diligence to understand who on the team is essential ("good bones" for the structure) vs. those that are not. It's been a week.

The difference is Steve Jobs at least knew a thing or two about running a tech company whereas Musk had social media engineers print out code to show his car company engineers.

You’re saying that with hindsight on Steve Jobs full career. You don’t have hindsight on Elon’s.

Is the idea here that Twitter is more complicated than building rockets? Or building factories that build millions of electric cars?

Not the person you're replying to, but it's not "more complicated" per se, technically, but Twitter is as Musk puts it a town square, and if you're going to treat a product that relies on a social network like a car or a rocket...can't see the analogous processes applying here

Yes. The tooling required is more expensive, but the engineering going into both is more mature and simpler.

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