Matador
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Nobody is quite sure what you are saying...they just know it's wrong.
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JR
JR
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I don’t blame anyone but myself! Seeing both sides all the time, I consistently contradict myself! The internal struggle is real. Ha!Nobody is quite sure what you are saying...they just know it's wrong.
pucho812
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so he finally purchased it. lets see how it plays out vs what the media says.
boji
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Musk plans 75% employee cut - while also making an everything app? Ok
https://apnews.com/article/elon-mus...social-media-1a9005b6653b07b5764ed61053554d1f
https://apnews.com/article/elon-mus...social-media-1a9005b6653b07b5764ed61053554d1f
He was comparing revenue per employee to apple but twitter is not exactly comparable to apple. Tesla is 661k/per employee while twitter was 681k/per. Apple was more like 2.6M/per employees, but data was from different sources.
Sounds like he is negotiating with his employees... in the press.
JR
AnalogPackrat
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Twitter is easier than Apple. No hardware. No manufacturing. No 3rd party supply chain. No shipping, stores, logistics. Most of the SW only companies that have taken over "Silicon Valley" are probably fat with underperformers (based on my experience there). Musk likely wants to streamline and simplify the business. He's had quite a while to study and understand the current state of the company.
I wonder what this AP report is based on, number wise. I suppose they just find some numbers on the net.
That's rather unscientific. An example: up until a week ago, Apple had around 2,5 million employee profiles on LinkedIn. Needless to say Apple doesn't have that much people working for them. AI cleaned up a lot of fake profiles, now the numbers look completely different.
Amazon and a few others had the same problem, also got cleaned up. So that seems to work for the big boys, but what about lesser known or smaller companies? And how precise is that AI process?
That's rather unscientific. An example: up until a week ago, Apple had around 2,5 million employee profiles on LinkedIn. Needless to say Apple doesn't have that much people working for them. AI cleaned up a lot of fake profiles, now the numbers look completely different.
Amazon and a few others had the same problem, also got cleaned up. So that seems to work for the big boys, but what about lesser known or smaller companies? And how precise is that AI process?
Musk has been trying to back out of this deal since it became obvious he was overpaying. Now the US government is investigating it for security concerns. Maybe they will bail him out. The military is not paying him for the free internet over Ukraine.
JR
The military is not paying him for the free internet over Ukraine.JR
I don't think this is entirely true (I believe the US is paying some of the bill.) And from what I've read, there are more than a few crowdfunders who are paying full price for starlink setups for Ukrainian soldiers.
Over the last few weeks Elon has been vocal about the cost to sustain the satellite internet service with cost estimates ranging from a couple $M per month to a lot more. This just may be him negotiating some more.. He said that his company funding it gratis for perpetuity was unsustainable. He has recently backed off from his demands aimed at the Pentagon paying outright.
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I suspect there are many people who want to support Ukraine's war effort and this surely is one way.
JR
PS: Reportedly the Biden administration wants Musk to provide internet service to protesters in Iran where the government has blocked internet to thwart protests.
Matador
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Maybe shit-posting about the company he was going to buy for 5 months wasn't the best idea.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...nk-terminals-ukraine-contrary-spacexs-claims/
From April. I'm sure he's been paid much more since then. His contributions to Ukraine have certainly been substantial, but his whining detracts substantially from any sort of appreciation of his seeming generosity.
From April. I'm sure he's been paid much more since then. His contributions to Ukraine have certainly been substantial, but his whining detracts substantially from any sort of appreciation of his seeming generosity.
Matador
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Indeed: it's costing him 0.008% of his net worth to aid Ukraine, so his complaining seems pretty on-brand.
AnalogPackrat
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There are plenty of capable and non-woke engineers out there who would be glad to work for such a company. He doesn't have to keep it in California (and probably won't--who would?).
USAID is not exactly a Pentagon war funding account but it is still coming from taxpayer pockets.
JR
PS: If shaming Elon for being wealthy how about shaming him for being so smart?
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