"Stay at Twitter because we're moving to 80 hour work weeks and cancelling Christmas" can't be the argument by itself, right?
It's got to be something like "Stay at Twitter because we're building exciting new project X, but we'll need 80 hour work weeks to pull this off..."
Elon's previous companies are populated by true believers (albeit because of a shared vision ie: colonizing Mars) who behave more like serfs when pushed. With Twitter, it's like Elon started governing a democracy and didn't realize that almost everyone (except H1B holders) can just leave and do something else.
Of all the problems I see with what's going on, this isn't one of them. Most of the current internet (and beyond that as well) exists solely on the premise that we give away power freely, with no expectations of proportional responsibilities in return.
If Twitter survives and, somehow, flourishes, all it takes for people to forget and sign up is a benefit to them, and blaring you opinions into a bigger void may just be enough already.
Not sure that even Mr. Musk can fix that.
Not only that, but "... and they'll receive larger compensation and/or share of the company."
The company has no vision, no real captain, nor is it public.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221112000701/https://www.nytim...
For Tesla, it was one of a handful of places in the world where you could work on electric cars. SpaceX was one of what -- maybe 3 places in the world? -- where you really could work on rockets. If either of those inspired you, Tesla and SpaceX are premier employers.
If your interests are building large distributed systems, that has lots of choices.
like twitter?
apparently elon's master plan is 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism?
That's not a terrible idea if he can pull it off and make it profitable even despite the massive debt he loaded Twitter with to purchase it.
WeChat succeeds because it caters to a less mature market with a simple integrated product. American network service users have demonstrated repeatedly that they are OK with bundling products but less enthusiastic about bundled services.
Incidentally I just glanced at the AOL website to remind myself how it's doing, and their ad banner offers a service to reduce the amount of paper junk mail you receive by signing up for AOL's managed unsubscription service. Less Information Age and more Irony Age.
What's wrong with 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism.
But doing what happened 20 years ago is hardly "truly innovative"