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[text] oo e e . Elon wyd I genuinely wish could see inside Musks head or at least get an explanation for how he was thinking his plans would work out. Like its clear now he is fantastically out of touch with reality but still really wanna know like to what degree. Did he think people would accept his ultimatum Did he genuinely think it would only take ike 300 people to keep Twitter running numberonecatwinner Foilov ago 1was an intern at SpaceX years ago back it when it was a much smaller company after Elon got halr plugs but before his cult of personality was in full swing. have some insight to offer here. Back when was at SpaceX Elon was basically a child king. He was an important figurehead who provided the company with the money power and PR but he didnt have the knowledge o frankly maturity to handle daytoday decision making and everyone knew that. He was surrounded by people whose job was essentially to manipulate him into making good decisions. Managing Elon was a huge part of the company culture. Even as a lowly Intern would hear people talking about it openly in meetings. People knew how to present ideas in a way that would resonate with him they knew how to creatively reinterpret or ignore his many. insane demands and they even knew how to stage manage parts of the physical office space so that it would appeal to Elon. The funniest example of stage management can remember s this dude on the IT security team. He had a script running in a terminal on one of his monitors that would output random garbage Matrixstyle 50 that it always looked Iike he was doing Important Computer Things to anyone who walked by his desk. Second funniest was all the people saw playing WoW at their desks after 5pm who did it in the office just to give the appearance that they were working late. People were willing to do that at SpaceX because Elon was giving them the money and hype to get into outer space a mission people ared desply about. The company also grew with and around Elon. There were layers of management between Individual employees and Elon and those managers were experienced managers of Elon. Again cannot stress enough how much of the company culture was oriented around managing this one guy. Twitter has nefther of those things going for t. There is no company culture or internal structure around the problem of managing Elon Musk and think for the first time were seeing what happens when people actually take that man seriously and at face value. Worse theyre doing this little experiment after this man has had decades of success at companies that dedicate significant resources to protecting themselves from him and hes too narcissistic to realize it This post s long s Il leave you with my favorite Elon story. One day atwork got an all hands email telling me that it was Elons birthday and there was going to be a mandatory surprise party for him in the cafeterla. Presumably Elon also got this emall but whatever. We all marched down into the cafeteria dimmed the lights and waited. Elon was led out by his secretary who he hadnt fired yet and made a big show of being fake surprised and touched that we were there. Then they wheeled out the cake. OK so I want you to imagine the biggest penis cake youve ever seen. Like the king of novelty sex cakes. Only its frosted white and the balls have been frosted to look like fire and smoke. This was Elons birthday rocket cake. For as long as live will never forget the look on everyones face In that dark room of mostlymale engineers when he made a wish wrid it liito thetip