https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musk-twitter-takeover.html

I definitely fall into the "schadenfreude" camp. Absolutely incredible.

Favorite quote:

"it was as if a rich guy had bought a restaurant and started telling the cooks he wanted to add a new dining room."

How did this man ever get a reputation for being some kind of genius? I can only assume this is by the adjacency of tech and vast sums of money. It is equal parts astonishing and hilarious that he thinks he can run a company with engineers alone.

And yet, there are people who, even after all of this, still pine after him!

"Shevat thought Sacks seemed bored — he spent most of the meeting checking his phone. “He didn’t want to understand anything,” Shevat says. It made him want to cry, especially since he had actually been eager to work with Musk. “I would have worked really hard for him,” he says."
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Irwin believed him. “In my conversation with Elon, what became very clear was he actually really, really, really cares about this, more so than other executives have.”
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“The speed at which he moves and expects people to move can be dizzying, for sure,” Irwin says. She still supports Musk. “It’s probably the fastest-moving organization right now that I’ve ever seen in my life.”
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On December 29, one tweeted a selfie, smiling in front of an empty office, with the hashtags #solowork, #productivity, and #findingperspective.

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