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Rebranding was so urgent that he didn't wait for a finished logo? I have to admit, I'm baffled. With his other changes I can at least imagine a thought process behind it, this one seems to be something he just woke up and decided to do all of a sudden.
It becomes a lot easier to understand when you remember that he might just be kinda stupid :)
He's not, though. He's had plenty of successful companies that have done some pretty amazing things, and he's become a multi-hundred-billionaire starting from a relatively extremely small amount of seed funding.
I suspect that his successes in other fields may have led him to think he would be just as good at running a social media company, which isn't going so well for him.
Whoa, be careful everyone, these are the slick moves of a master genius!
It's entirely possible that he was smart, I'm sure he was to an extent, but I believe that Space X and Tesla have better structures in places for managing/limiting Musk's direct influence, and I also believe that, like many of the super rich, he's succumbed to a form of right-wing brain rot over the years. His brain is now smooth and toxic.
I literally said in the comment that you're responding to that Musk isn't good at running Twitter.
It's a little worse than 'not going well', is my point.
That's not my point. I said that Musk had done well with his other non-Twitter companies and you responded "but look at how terrible he is at running Twitter!"
Don’t forget this bit:
“It's entirely possible that he was smart, I'm sure he was to an extent, but I believe that Space X and Tesla have better structures in places for managing/limiting Musk's direct influence, and I also believe that, like many of the super rich, he's succumbed to a form of right-wing brain rot over the years. His brain is now smooth and toxic.”