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[–] DaddleDew 327 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)
  • Claims in an interview that he is qualified to handle a social media company on the internet because he has "put internet in space"
  • Buys a financially struggling company for way too much money
  • Dismantles everything that made it attractive
  • Insults and fires the most competent employees who are trying to stop him from destroying the platform
  • Doesn't pay the employees he fired owed severance, further discouraging the best of the workforce from ever applying to work there
  • Turned it into something so repulsive and toxic that the users and advertisers start to leave
  • Told the advertisers to "go fuck themselves"
  • Tried to sue the advertisers into returning, further discouraging any new advertiser from ever doing business with him
  • Destroys the brand recognition by renaming it to a letter of the alphabet he personally likes but nobody else gives a crap about
  • Abuses his admin powers to steal a handle with the name he wanted from its owner, further eroding the user's trust in him handling the platform
  • Continues ruining the platform, turning it into his personal soap box to push his (toxic) ideas and abuses his powers to reduce the visibility of those he doesn't like while claiming to be radically pro-free speech.
  • Alternative platforms have gained momentum and have reached critical mass and will soon become the new default platform people will flock to. High profile users leave.
  • Whines and bitches about the company not making any money.

Hey guys, I'm starting to think that this guy's fortune has absolutely nothing to do with his skills at running a business

[–] NeoNachtwaechter 49 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Hey guys, I'm starting to think that this guy's fortune has absolutely nothing to do with his skills at running a business

Great summary btw. and you are absolutely right here. He is a terrible manager.

Remember the time when he slept at the Tesla factory just because he didn't trust anybody and thought he himself must rescue it all by working so much overtime and make all the decisions.

[–] GladiusB 33 points 2 weeks ago

Probably because his wife kicked him out for being an asshole.

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