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> Before the AI craze, Musk chopped an awful lot of headcount at Twitter, right, and proved it was overkill, has that panned out? He basically killed the Twitt
by hkpack 4mo ago
> Before the AI craze, Musk chopped an awful lot of headcount at Twitter, right, and proved it was overkill, has that panned out?
He basically killed the Twitter as a business. The only lesson here is that it is really hard to fail having infinite money.
- reverius42 4mo agoKilled? Twitter's AI/datacenter business is practically the only thing propping up SpaceX's valuation now, per their S-1 filing!
- hkpack 4mo agoYes, that is a completely new business which has OpenAI, Anthropic and Google as competitors. While Twitters competitors were Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Tumblr and Mastodon.