Nat Friedman once said on Twitter that tech companies are 2-5x overstaffed and everyone knows this.
I hope the same positive outcome comes out of T-Mobile, and not just people losing their jobs. And I hope they find new jobs soon.
Just in the last one year, we've gotten: Twitter Notes, long form video, checkmarks for everyone, subscriptions for creators, edit tweets, see # of replies and likes on a tweet
Yes, Twitter is worth less than he paid for it. He's partially responsible, he's been too erratic. But I'm optimistic with this shipping velocity, in a couple years the company will be worth much more.
Subscriptions was released in 2021 then called Super Follows.
Notes was rolled out in Jun 2022, before the acquisition.
Basically, half the things you attribute to Musk are the major features they released before him.
Where, exactly? If everybody is 2-5x overstaffed and is cutting people, where are all those people going to go? Form startups to sell things to people forming startups because they were laid off?
People like Nat and Musk want people burning themselves out with overwork and blame organizational and management issues on people not working hard enough. The truth is at most tech companies the real organizational waste is bad leadership and poor direction, people not having clear goals and work, and burning too many cycles trying to compensate for organizational dysfunction.
Hurray Elon
And that's just in 1 year