Getting there is left as an exercise for the reader.
Be an executive at NBCUniversal in advertising, Twitter’s revenue engine, and also be on their CEO short list.
What is this, a track record of 1? 2?
This doesn't seem like the type of thing you can do enough times to have a "track record" of.
Twitter is a well-established company that has been mismanaged for a decade and aggressively driven into the ground by Musk over the last 7 months.
These two situations aren't even remotely equivalent.
Gwynne was hired to make something out of nothing in an unproven space (no pun intended), having to build everything from the ground up (also no pun intended).
Framing is a fun exercise, you can do it a lot of ways.
I don't think you're disagreeing with me that Gwynne and Linda Yaccarino are finding themselves in utterly dissimilar situations though, right?
Not that Musk is demonstrably the opposite.
When Tucker Carlson announced that he'd post his new show on Twitter, Musk already sent a cryptic mail saying that Carlson would be subject to the same "community notes" as everyone else.
We'll see how it goes, I'm just getting vibes that everything will be reverted to a standard SV company.
Edit: lol, I guess she’s the President and COO, not CEO. Dunno if the point still stands, or not…
But it’s different when the founder/CEO is replaced only to return later. That’s a Steve Jobs play. When the CEO takes a new role, but still owns the company, that’s completely different (and certainly fits here).
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Ohanian
> [...] He was also a partner at Y Combinator.
> [...]
> On July 2, 2015, Reddit fired communications director Victoria Taylor, an administrator who coordinated celebrity interviews from Reddit's New York office. In protest, volunteer moderators of the IAmA community set their forum to private, effectively turning it off, and other volunteer moderators followed suit because of "anger at the way the company routinely demands that the volunteers and community accept major changes that reduce [their] efficiency and increase [their] workload".[40] The following day, a moderator of IAmA posted that "Chooter (Victoria) was let go as an admin by u/kn0thing [Alexis Ohanian]",[41] an assertion that was not widely reported on.[42] Media outlets such as Variety blamed interim CEO Ellen Pao for the dismissal. Harassment, which was already being directed toward Pao in relation to other controversies, intensified and she resigned a week later.[43] However, on July 12, former CEO Yishan Wong informed the Reddit community that Taylor was fired by "the CEO's boss" and accused Ohanian of scapegoating.[42] In the aftermath of Pao's resignation, Ohanian elaborated on his role in Taylor's dismissal, countering that even though the AMA/IAmA changes came from him, he still reported to Pao.[44] In 2017, Pao criticized Ohanian for avoiding the fallout by attending Wimbledon in the days immediately following Taylor's firing.[45]
Great visionary here
Edit: Someone clarified below that Knothing took responsibility for firing Victory but Pao definitely took the heat for firing victory on top of nuking several popular (edgy and outright bad) subs
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cucye/comme...
Best estimates are "somewhere around 450k" which is $3.6M/month or $43.2M/year. Which is only $956.8M short of the $1B/year debt servicing he saddled Twitter with. It's a GENIUS PLAN.
All of twitter's usage records were broken after he bought it. All of them.