Is Elon Musk the world's worst CEO?!

He is doing an incredible job. In three years it will be one of the world's most valuable companies. It will combine twitter and its own versions of youtube, paypal, tiktok, search, podcasts, etc all into one seamless app.

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried owns it. He's also the DEMOCRAT's 2nd biggest donor. Meanwhile, Elon is wildly successful making the world more green

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Fun stuff

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/technology/twitter-elon-musk-ftc.html

Of course not. He runs multiple other companies that have done absurdly well and made shareholders very wealthy. Regardless of the Twitter disaster which is a short term problem for now, Tesla's returns have been off the charts.

He’s at the very least completely bungled any bids/negotiations/management he has been a part of with Twitter.

Twitter may or may not collapse but look at the people promoting that line: it's all the ex-employees and Twitter addict echo chamber "safe space" simps... Find me at Mastodon blah blah...

Not defending Musk's chaotic management style but don't believe for a second his many enemies won't "misinformation" this as much as possible.

#StillMasking

Not sure how this will all pan out, but in times where jobs are aplenty, it is foolish to ask employees to burn the midnight oil. Most of them who now won't might have done that for a while for another CEO, but he's got all of them mad at him for the big layoff, so, as should have been expected, many of them just flat out quit.

There is no disputing that he's been a success so far, and I'm not one of those liberals who just diminishes all he's done just because he's a right-wing nutbag. He's obviously a talented and gifted individual. That said, SO FAR, it doesn't look like he knows what he's doing at all with this Twitter acquisition.

I am neither rooting for it to fail or succeed, though I did not want to be a part of it, so I did cancel my Twitter account...which I wasn't really using much anyway.

Will be interesting to see how this all pans out.

A lot are quitting you say? Wow. What an opportunity. I’d love to go with for the history’s greatest technical entrepreneur and CEO. Wish I was 30 years younger.

Good analysis. There are those that have ascribed God-like qualities to Musk. Many on this message board. And of course, he believes them.

Musk doesn't seem like a nice person. Also, his talk of everything he does being a "stepping stone to colonizing mars" is cringeworthy. His parents owned a diamond mine. He is not a genius, he is not even an above average physics student. He comes from money and has been playing the precocious child his entire life.

Thanks for the share. Great thoughts.

Sorry that was harsh. I just can't stand employers like him.

This is nothing new for musk, i dont know why people are surprised. Has everybody forgotten the thai cave rescue debacle where a.) He made a not fit for purpose submarine and b.) Called the actual rescuer a paedophile just because he was a middle aged western man living in thailand (that was his actual reasoning, maybe not word for word but close enough).

How can you be so stupid to hugely overpay for a company without doing due diligence and then run it into the ground within weeks. Even a bang average solicitor could have handled this better for a few thousand £$€... isn't this guy the richest man in the world? Surely he hasnt bought it just to intentionally bankrupt it because he sold a bunch of tesla stocks to buy it.

He should stick to tesla, seems like his forte.

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A teenage Elon Musk once casually sold his father's emeralds to Tiffany & Co. while his dad was sleeping | Businessinsider

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Elon Musk once sold a family emerald to Tiffany & Co for $800. Then he learned a painful lesson in capitalism.

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I doubt he is the worst, he's just very high profile, but whether he's good or bad depends on how you judge him.

I don't judge CEOs merely on the valuation of their company. I judge them on how they treat their employees and if their employees have good work-life balance. If the soft skills of being a compassionate leader aren't there no matter how good your company does you'll never be a good CEO.

Imagine a world where YouTube does not have that crazy polarizing algorithm which just shows you videos which are in line with the videos that you looked at before and which pushes you gradually in one direction.

Simpletons will not like that, but I believe/hope that the majority of the world population will embrace that.

Also imagine a world where videos do not get banned simply because they do not follow main stream media narrative.

Remember when some books were banned by the religion in the 60s. That went away. It’s back now, but controlled by $ instead of religion.

Sam Bankman Fried.