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DurwinBurger King gave candy to a worker has worked for more than 20 years.
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Don’t feel too sad for Twitter’s executives when they leave after Elon Musk took over.
“Former chief executive Parag Agrawal will receive $57.4 million, former chief financial officer Ned Segal gets $44.5 million, and former head of legal policy, trust and safety Vijaya Gadde will receive $20 million, Equilar said, citing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.”
That is nearly $120M in total for the 3 execs.
Plus, they get to take a break and watch Elon untangle the mess he gotten himself into.
I lost it when I saw Elon posting a video of him walking into Twitter’s HQ clutching a literal Kitchen sink.
At first I half-suspected it was a fake video, with AI-generated content being all the rage now.
Then when I realised Elon himself tweeted it, it made sense.
Who would be so brazen enough to troll an entire company he just purchased?
For comparison, Tesla is valued at $700B+, SpaceX at $127B and The Boring Company is $5.7B.
Elon bought Twitter for $44B.
Compared to the other mega social media platforms out there, it is bang for buck.
On a side note, how does Tesla and SpaceX shareholders feel about Elon’s escapades?
That instead of focussing on things that will shape humanity and change the world, he is spending precious hours debating people on Twitter and hustling Twitter employees to work harder.
Was it an effective use of his time?
Some would say it is a foolish move.
I see a tiny ray of light in what he is doing.
He is a showman and he understand marketing, publicity and showmanship very well.
More so than the average joe and typical shareholder.
He knows that his rockets may bring humanity closer to interstellar travel and his EVs will revolutionize transportation as we know it.
But to get there, he needs clout, massive influence and tremendous power over society.
What better way to do that than to buy an entire social media platform that he is power user of and has nearly 130M followers?
Thin about it, what other mega social media platforms are even for sale?
Mark Zuckerberg will never let go of FaceBook and Instagram, Jeff Bezos won’t sell the Washington Post to him, TikTok is untenable, and Microsoft paid $26.2B for Linkedin in 2016, it is worth way more now.
Besides risking it on random social media app that comes up once in a while like BeReal or Vine (which is now gone), Twitter might actually be his best bet.
So Twitter might actually just fit right into his plans of world domination, by boosting his influence and reach considerably.
One often forgets just how influential Elon is on Twitter.
His Tweets have moved entire markets like Dogecoin.
His Tweets have landed him in hot water with the SEC.
“The tweets said he had “funding secured” to take his electric vehicle company private for $420 per share, and that “investor support” for such a deal was “confirmed.””
His Tweets have given birth to an entire wealth of memes and social media accounts dedicated to scrutinise and propagate his thinking and philosophy.
Attention is the new currency, and Elon sure knows how to get our attention.
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Looking back now, did Elon make the right move by buying Twitter?
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#startups #business #startupx #growth #success #socialmedia #culture #entrepreneurship #strategy #eth #btc #crypto #opensea #markets #bearmarket #NFT #profits #nftmarket
Don’t feel too sad for Twitter’s executives when they leave after Elon Musk took over.
“Former chief executive Parag Agrawal will receive $57.4 million, former chief financial officer Ned Segal gets $44.5 million, and former head of legal policy, trust and safety Vijaya Gadde will receive $20 million, Equilar said, citing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.”
That is nearly $120M in total for the 3 execs.
Plus, they get to take a break and watch Elon untangle the mess he gotten himself into.
I lost it when I saw Elon posting a video of him walking into Twitter’s HQ clutching a literal Kitchen sink.
At first I half-suspected it was a fake video, with AI-generated content being all the rage now.
Then when I realised Elon himself tweeted it, it made sense.
Who would be so brazen enough to troll an entire company he just purchased?
For comparison, Tesla is valued at $700B+, SpaceX at $127B and The Boring Company is $5.7B.
Elon bought Twitter for $44B.
Compared to the other mega social media platforms out there, it is bang for buck.
On a side note, how does Tesla and SpaceX shareholders feel about Elon’s escapades?
That instead of focussing on things that will shape humanity and change the world, he is spending precious hours debating people on Twitter and hustling Twitter employees to work harder.
Was it an effective use of his time?
Some would say it is a foolish move.
I see a tiny ray of light in what he is doing.
He is a showman and he understand marketing, publicity and showmanship very well.
More so than the average joe and typical shareholder.
He knows that his rockets may bring humanity closer to interstellar travel and his EVs will revolutionize transportation as we know it.
But to get there, he needs clout, massive influence and tremendous power over society.
What better way to do that than to buy an entire social media platform that he is power user of and has nearly 130M followers?
Thin about it, what other mega social media platforms are even for sale?
Mark Zuckerberg will never let go of FaceBook and Instagram, Jeff Bezos won’t sell the Washington Post to him, TikTok is untenable, and Microsoft paid $26.2B for Linkedin in 2016, it is worth way more now.
Besides risking it on random social media app that comes up once in a while like BeReal or Vine (which is now gone), Twitter might actually be his best bet.
So Twitter might actually just fit right into his plans of world domination, by boosting his influence and reach considerably.
One often forgets just how influential Elon is on Twitter.
His Tweets have moved entire markets like Dogecoin.
His Tweets have landed him in hot water with the SEC.
“The tweets said he had “funding secured” to take his electric vehicle company private for $420 per share, and that “investor support” for such a deal was “confirmed.””
His Tweets have given birth to an entire wealth of memes and social media accounts dedicated to scrutinise and propagate his thinking and philosophy.
Attention is the new currency, and Elon sure knows how to get our attention.
-
Looking back now, did Elon make the right move by buying Twitter?
-
#startups #business #startupx #growth #success #socialmedia #culture #entrepreneurship #strategy #eth #btc #crypto #opensea #markets #bearmarket #NFT #profits #nftmarket
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