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“I think people are underestimating him,” said Vance. Musk seemed to know this and still decided to buy the social media company. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey himself admitted to hiring too many people. There are several possible answers, with clues to be found both in what is happening today in Silicon Valley and in Musk’s past experience at SpaceX and Tesla. The great mystery of these first weeks of Twitter under Musk is how the company can survive with just 2,700 employees, more than 50% fewer than it had in October. The indisputable success of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla are not the only milestones of Musk’s career. He is also working on Tesla’s hyperloop, a high-speed transportation system the Optimus robot as well as Neuralink’s brain chips, the results of which are all still to be determined.

I think he’s willing to take this risk and can live with the results either way.”Īfter all, Twitter is just one of Musk’s many projects. “The other thing I would say is if this just doesn’t work and Twitter totally collapses and his entire $40 billion-plus is wiped out, I don’t think he would be okay with it, but he’s probably the only person whose life wouldn’t be destroyed.

But for Elon, it’s kind of standard operating procedure to have a business in chaos,” said Vance. “For most people, this would be kind of an extraordinary situation. Is this a big deal for Musk? Probably not. 2rhvY0o46o- Abdul Wahab Cide Ali November 20, 2022 Since Musk officially bought Twitter on October 27, he has laid off thousands of employees, announced that former US president Donald Trump will be allowed back, and caused chaos with ill-considered decisions, leading many to herald the end of Twitter and move to other networks such as Mastodon.Ī book by on published in 2015. “Based on some messages we swapped back and forth, I do think he’s pretty stressed out,” Vance told EL PAÍS by phone. His interest in social media and Twitter may seem new from the outside, but Musk has likely put many hours into thinking about it and believes, as he wrote to advertisers, that Twitter is not just a social network, but an essential “digital public square” for the future of humanity. Since he was young, he has been very interested in the internet (he founded X.com, which is the origin of Paypal and secure online payments), rockets (SpaceX) and electric cars (Tesla). Musk has always been obsessively focused on his interests. “I believe the second sentence out of his mouth was ‘I think a lot about electric cars,’” Christie Nicholson, who met the young Musk at a party and remains his friend, told Vance. He was already using this ruse when he was 18 years old and had just arrived in Canada from his native South Africa. 圓6gImqiJg- BikingMzStacey❤️‍🔥🚲🌁 November 18, 2022īut Musk’s penchant for using technology to flirt with women dates back to before his million-dollar investment in Tesla, the electric car manufacturer he co-founded.