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0 pointsmatwood3y ago0 comments

> Long tenure alone is absolutely not an advantage.

It's also not necessarily a disadvantage. The real argument is that people management is important. Everyone from the new person who just joined to the decade long senior engineer need to be held to high standards. Which brings me to my next point.

The big problem with Twitter was management. Dorsey was barely a CEO for many years. Parag didn't seem to want to try anything. I think people routinely underestimate how important good leaders are. "There are no bad teams, only bad leaders" comes to mind. So far Elon has shown himself to be terrible in this regard. With SpaceX and Tesla he communicated a vision, with Twitter he's communicated very little and just instituted chaos.

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mschuster913y ago

> The big problem with Twitter was management. Dorsey was barely a CEO for many years. Parag didn't seem to want to try anything.

The problem was even worse: there was no vision at all from no one, not leadership, not the investors, not the users, what Twitter should be, other than "it is a way for instant communication with feeds". Everything else was completely lacking: what features do people want, what moderation policy should be applied, how does Twitter plan to make money.

The only ones that had at least some sort of vision where activists - the left wing, the advertisers and large parts of the users didn't want Nazis any more, and the right wing wanted "free speech" aka allowing Nazis.

matwoodOP3y ago

> there was no vision at all from no one

Completely agree.

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