Elon Musk and Twitter Reach Deal for Sale
Personally, I think the value of Twitter will be much higher under Elon Musk than under old management. I don&#x27;t know if it was undervalued or overvalued, so I don&#x27;t know if he&#x27;s going to make money on it, but from the outside, it felt mismanaged.<p>I do think employees will scream &quot;bloody murder,&quot; but it will be the wrong employees screaming the hardest. Twitter should be neutral, and support diversity. Twitter employees can&#x27;t tolerate red states, let alone the diversity of the broader world. Muslims constitute over a billion people. Chinese are over a billion. Toss in Latin America, Slavic countries, and so on, and you have a broad swath of cultures which views out-of-line with woke Twitter employees.<p>If Elon can make Twitter less progressive, white, affluent, Western, blue state value aligned, that&#x27;s a bigger, broader userbase.<p>On the other side, Twitter hasn&#x27;t really improved since coming out. The number of employees has more than doubled since 2017, and it&#x27;s not quite clear why. There&#x27;s a lot of work to be done on either the cost side or the product improvement side. I don&#x27;t feel like it has much beyond momentum.<p>A key question is whether Elon will be able to make a workplace environment competitive with FAANG. He&#x27;s not known as a great guy to work for. He will need that calibre of talent (if not the current quantity).