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As the comment says, it would be interesting to interact with the richest person on earth. Short of that, I have no idea why anyone would think it's fun or anything to be in that atmosphere. He could change direction on a whim and make you redundant in a second.

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I guess different people want different things, but I would have flown across the country to be in that room at 1am.

A startup sized team working on a platform with twitters scale for a boss with capital and a willingness to consider new ideas? Once in a lifetime opportunity.

It’s startup cosplay, made for public consumption and Elon ego boosting.

> A startup sized team working on a platform with twitters scale for a boss with capital and a willingness to consider new ideas?

Willingness to consider his new ideas. Not your new ideas. He's the idea man, your job is to implement it. And if you tell him why the idea may not work as intended, you're fired.

This is silly. Companies like Tesla and SpaceX don't succeed without a willingness to consider new ideas. They clearly aren't the result of one man's ideas alone.

Tesla and SpaceX had very hard problems to solve.

What new hard problem is Twitter solving, at this stage of its life?

Tesla has implemented numerous ideas from their customers' tweets.

Well, come to think of it, if you want your ideas to be implemented in Twitter, tweeting publicly at Elon Musk (and staying the hell away from Twitter HQ) seems like the way to go. Plus, no danger of being fired.

I completely agree. This is the kind of luck that money can't buy that you can use to catapult yourself to new areas of a career.

Catapult seems like a very apt choice of word.

I'd like to assert this richest person holds no real sway over you unless threatening your life, which is a far cry from possibly just being a nuisance narcissistic character at worst introducing a discontinuity in your employment.

You're as important as him, regardless of your bank account.

At best you might follow him to the next business venture that everyone is talking about in 2030.

I’ve stayed up for hackathons and stayed out late for meetups, this seems way more fun. Who cares if you’re redundant? Not everything is about status.

In this context being made redundant means losing your job.

(Just not sure if you’re aware.)

Yea I’m aware

> Who cares if you’re redundant?

People need money to eat.

then get a job?

They have a job. Redundancy is taking their job away. There's a recession.

It’s worse than that. For many of them it also means they will have to leave the country because Space Karen had a new idea for the 19th time that week.

Exactly. I can admit that it would be sort of cool to be around Elon for a bit, just to have a good story for parties, even if it means staying past 1am at the office. But let's not pretend they're building something earth-shattering that actually merits being there at 1am. They're there to feed Elon's ego and make him believe he understands the inner workings of twitter, which for some reason would help him make executive decisions that are less arbitrary than he's already made?

If you want to know why the people look like they’re having a fun time, watch The Death of Stalin

To be honest, they don't look like they are having fun to me. Most of the people I can see in that photo read as exhausted to me (which makes sense, 1 am and all). Even the group photo Elon tweeted looks pretty forced to my eyes.

America doesn't have the culture of Russians of continuous lying. That doesn't apply.

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