Both were started at the right times yet it’s not obvious whether the engineering would’ve happened without his at-all-costs method and the vision/mission driving it.
Even then everyone understood the enormous pressures the workers were under but one could admire what was being acheived as the trailblazer.
I just don’t see any vision or mission to admire for Twitter especially with Musk at the helm.
Trying to force this on an existing culture will be hard, and doing the “extreme pressure” bit with no vision beyond “more free speech” seems impossible.
Maybe he will get there and in a few months the remainder will have coalesced around the joy of shipping good features fast. But things like labor laws and the FCC consent decree will provide a strong legacy drag.
You know you're on the "bad side" when labor laws are computed as a nuisance.
That's a serious problem. But he has said the plan is to turn it into X, the everything app. Like WeChat.