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Gwynne was hired at SpaceX the year it was founded, so she's had ample opportunity to operate the company the way she felt it needed to be operated.

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.

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Twitter is a well-established company with a huge userbase and existing infrastructure.

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.

Well sure, your framing is just as correct as mine.

I don't think you're disagreeing with me that Gwynne and Linda Yaccarino are finding themselves in utterly dissimilar situations though, right?

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