Elon is ultimately a victim of his own tragic stupidity. He wanted to believe that he was always the smartest guy in the room and paid handsomely for smarter people to pretend that he was.
But then he bought Xitter and reality caught up with him. A middling intellect with barely surface knowledge of every venture he pollutes with his presence.
The real tragedy is what all those smart people could have done with all those resources if they weren’t being led by a fuckwit.
Supposedly, the companies he bought when they were still very small (Tesla, SpaceX) developed a culture of managing Elon, and new employees would gradually learn how they need to deal with his requests to keep him happy while still keeping the business going.
But because Twitter was already so large and established, and Musk took over and started making big changes right away, they didn’t have the culture or the institutional knowledge of how to deal with him. So the damage has been so much worse.
I’ve been in an org like that, run by an untreated bipolar guy who genuinely was a visionary and very very smart. We also had to work around the guy, but he was also very much the straw that stirred the drink.
Just the fact that companies had to have Elon Rules to prevent sidetracking doesn’t necessarily mean he was a net negative if his talents lined up with the company. He is obviously taking a giant shit on Twitter and it plays to his worst instincts though (for fuck’s sake, using a picture of yourself in a meme is as lame as wearing your own band’s t-shirt).
I’m pretty sure I also remember him firing his PR team right about the time he made the pedo comment to the caver who saved a bunch of kids. Which is coincidentally one of the first instances people started questioning his genius narrative
Elon is ultimately a victim of his own tragic stupidity. He wanted to believe that he was always the smartest guy in the room and paid handsomely for smarter people to pretend that he was.
But then he bought Xitter and reality caught up with him. A middling intellect with barely surface knowledge of every venture he pollutes with his presence.
The real tragedy is what all those smart people could have done with all those resources if they weren’t being led by a fuckwit.
Supposedly, the companies he bought when they were still very small (Tesla, SpaceX) developed a culture of managing Elon, and new employees would gradually learn how they need to deal with his requests to keep him happy while still keeping the business going.
But because Twitter was already so large and established, and Musk took over and started making big changes right away, they didn’t have the culture or the institutional knowledge of how to deal with him. So the damage has been so much worse.
I’ve been in an org like that, run by an untreated bipolar guy who genuinely was a visionary and very very smart. We also had to work around the guy, but he was also very much the straw that stirred the drink.
Just the fact that companies had to have Elon Rules to prevent sidetracking doesn’t necessarily mean he was a net negative if his talents lined up with the company. He is obviously taking a giant shit on Twitter and it plays to his worst instincts though (for fuck’s sake, using a picture of yourself in a meme is as lame as wearing your own band’s t-shirt).
I’m pretty sure I also remember him firing his PR team right about the time he made the pedo comment to the caver who saved a bunch of kids. Which is coincidentally one of the first instances people started questioning his genius narrative