Elon Musk: Why He Now Fires Employees Almost Every Day
Twitter is f*cked.
There are so many questions now that Elon bought Twitter.
Like is there any way that Elon actually makes money off this or is it just an impulse buy like how my Aunt bought a Peloton for Christmas?
A better question is what’s next for the platform and for the people that work there — as it seems an employee purge is pretty much predestined.
After all this Elon guy once said:
“There are too many MBAs running America”
— Elon Musk
Twitter has over 5,500 employees. Correction. Twitter had over 5,500 employees.
If we look at the way Elon has treated employees in the past, this is what’s in store for the workers at Twitter.
Elon Asks One Question to Spot Liars
Elon Musk has allegedly interviewed every employee working at SpaceX.
(I wonder if that includes the janitor?)
He asks every candidate the same question: What’s the story of your life?
I know. Kind of lame.
It seems like it would be the ending to a 90s melodrama where the main characters answers, “Well, it’s a long story…” [Slow fade to credits]
Thankfully Elon has a better follow-up question that does give us some insight into his character: “What’s the hardest problem you have ever solved?”
Elon Musk is infamous for being a cutthroat boss who’s prone to occasional rage-outs. Among all his different companies it's even reported that he averages firing someone once a day (although that work is done for him by lower-ranked managers).
His approach, however, does get results.
Elon infamously fired the managers of SpaceX’s Starlink project for being too slow. Jeff Bezos quickly hired them. Starlink now has 1600+ satellites in orbit and is ready to start providing global internet service while Jeff Bezos is still years away from launching a single satellite.
It makes sense why Bezos threw some shade over the recent Twitter deal.
