What does he keep looking out at? Surely he can’t see anything of the audience when he’s under the stage lights and it’s not like he hasn’t spoken from a stage before.
The wealthy can afford to burn their bridges just like they can afford to burn their rockets and cars it seems. Damn'd if I'd fly in one though most of Uber it seems is driving Tesla vehicles.
It’s all bulshit coming from his mouth, all of it. Just watched the clip of him talking about unions. He’s says he knows what it’s like to work on the line and he respects those who work s on the line. BULLSHIT!
A federal agency has sued Tesla over alleged widespread racist harassment of Black workers and retaliation against those who spoke out about the issues.
“How do you justify swindling an investment group into investing $44 Billion into your advertising business then?”. is that the question that got cut off at the end? One can only hope
The man is clearly a product of abundant PR, and never having worked a day in his life, thinks he’s a super human when the reality is he’s 1º from a tapeworm
Also, I assure you that Bob Iger gives no craps whatsoever what little man Musk says. Twitter goes down for good it will be forgotten in short order, like any other collapsed social media network.
the best part is the part where he doesn’t understand the difference between people giving money TO you to promote content on your platform, and people demanding money FROM you to keep things secret.
In fairness to Melon Husk, the company formerly known as Twitter has not yet sought Chapter 11 after a year of self destruction. Despite cutbacks, the site remains running. Also, Husk knows that advertisers don't spend money to please him, they spend money to reach an audience. So he can insult them without changing the math of whether advertising on his web site is effective or not.
if I’m a corporation with $x to spend on advertising and I don’t think your platform echoes my brand values and so don’t advertise with you, how is that blackmail?? What am I missing here?
Tim Cook lashed out at shortsighted, bottom line-driven investors during Friday's annual shareholders meeting -- telling them to "get out of stock." The
It makes sense. Companies and people are trapped in that platform and will not leave it quickly. I still don’t believe that people are willing to pay in order to use the social network. And that subscription is not giving better privacy or encryption or anything. He will continue to make wild changes on the platform despite all risks to go negative because always possible to pour profit from his other companies into Twitter.
There's got to be something seriously wrong with that man. Nobody is obligated to advertise with him. It's so sad that he turned Twitter into 𝕏chan. I think doing so finally melted his brain.
One way to see this is as a tantrum directed at like-minded people urging them to spend on the service so that the opposition will not ruin it by not spending on it any more, and he doesn't have to spend so much himself.
Luckily he has so little experience with marketing (his other companies sell disruptive hardware, they're not incumbents who need to position themselves in the public eye against rivals) that he doesn't understand most corporate marketers prioritize avoidance of reputational damage over ad engagement. If he drives off IBM, Apple, Ford, et al, the alt-right aren't going to replace them.
@carlos That's absolutely the most likely outcome. Then he'll sell the shattered remains to someone like SUP Media (but not them, due to sanctions) and it goes the way of Livejournal, leaving behind a penumbral shade like Bluesky (the Dreamwidth afterlife of Livejournal in exile—original devs, forked codebase that does much the same thing, costs money, a fraction the size of the original, still ticking along).
It brings me no satisfaction to say this, but what Elon Musk did yesterday at the Dealbook Summit — telling advertisers to go F*#$ themselves — did not surpr...
He probably knows for some time that Twitter is toast, and runs in ego preservation mode. Right now, he started to openly shift the blame. Of course he can’t do it like an adult, so he goes into full cringe mode.
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Just all out class here folks. These are the “brightest” minds people look to and are inspired by.
Also like how the first F-bomb didn’t get a reaction. He watched then went for it again.
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Elon Musk can afford to tell his advertisers to eff themselves because his investors aren't interested in Twitter as a business.
Musk's investors are interested in ending democracy & thwarting climate action.
His investors are prepared to let Musk operate at a loss just to get those 2 items.
They're prepared to spend unlimited money keeping Twitter afloat to accomplish this.
Twitter's collapse could trigger a global financial crisis like 2008.
Bonus. In their view.
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •It’s all bulshit coming from his mouth, all of it. Just watched the clip of him talking about unions. He’s says he knows what it’s like to work on the line and he respects those who work s on the line. BULLSHIT!
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EEOC sues Tesla, alleging widespread racist harassment of Black workers, retaliation against those who spoke out
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Reminds me of when Tim Cook told investors to “Get out of Apple” when asked about Apple’s pursuit of sustainability over ROI.
But, you know…Bad.
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Tim Cook Tells Profit-Obsessed Investors To Sell Their Stock | Cult of Mac
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Elon is the poster child for a 99% income tax bracket. I should have, or honestly deserves to have, such an obscene amount of wealth.
There is almost nothing he can do or say that would ever end in real consequences.
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Its A Bold Strategy Cotton, Lets See If It Pays Off For Em
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Maybe he just breaks the toy at that point.
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •He can't SELL, the value is underwater compared to the debt load. He can only Chapter 11 and let the banks take over.
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •This is the early days of his demons dismantling his life’s work
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Elon Musk at Dealbook 2023 — Why he really told advertisers off
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in reply to Taylor Lorenz • • •Of course he can’t do it like an adult, so he goes into full cringe mode.
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