What part of my comment do you disagree with? Should we not wait longer than 3 weeks before calling this a failure?

Elon rn

Samsonite

11/25/22 11:53am

This is MuskBoard, how dare you post that. Just wait, he has the Midas touch.

Mitty

11/25/22 11:53am

Has Twitter EVER turned a profit?

Blue Print

11/25/22 12:53pm

It's hilarious how detractors want to find fault with the business acumen of the self-made wealthiest man in the world.

Division Bell

11/25/22 1:51pm

"Self made"

Hotlanta

11/25/22 2:40pm

He wasn't a billionaire growing up. But he is now. You're not too far apart in age. What's your excuse?

Division Bell

11/25/22 2:59pm

What's my excuse? I wasn't gifted an emerald mine. Did you even read my post?

Hotlanta

11/25/22 4:01pm

That's nothing compared to what he's generated. What have you done with what you got from your parents?

Division Bell

11/25/22 4:04pm

If only Dad would have gifted me an emerald mine, I would have been Elon Musk.

TheSpiker

11/25/22 4:06pm

Fake news. Elon is self made. The left loves you until they realize you're moderate... then they are ruthless.

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 4:11pm

I spent a little time in South Africa working with large manufacturers of mining equipment. There

Division Bell

11/25/22 4:45pm

Calcite mine? That's pretty cool.

Shore10

11/25/22 5:50pm

My great grandfather worked at a diamond mine in South Africa. He was a soldier in the Boer war and stayed to work in

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 6:05pm

RE: Fake news. Elon is self made. The left loves you until they realize you're

OmahaOmaha

11/25/22 6:55pm

I disagree w/ lots of his views but the guy is a serial entrepreneur & self-made

BYU'01

11/25/22 4:27pm

I think Musk’s investment horizon is a little longer than his leftist critics

BYU'01

11/25/22 3:33pm

Sometimes being moral and principled and doing whats right has a cost.

Backcountry

11/25/22 11:54am

Yeah, that's Elon for you

RSL

11/25/22 11:54am

Talk about a non sequitur. This is a thread about Musk

downtownchrisbrown

11/25/22 12:31pm

Lol. He is the wealthiest man in the world. Objectively, he is very very good

Ozymandias

11/25/22 11:54am

I mean, data. You lose 50% of your top advertisers you are doing something very

BlooCoog

11/25/22 11:57am

You mean data like he is the wealthiest man in the world and made that money

Ozymandias

11/25/22 12:00pm

Or there is a clear attempt to sabotage him from liberal sources who are upset

P-Widdy

11/25/22 12:06pm

This is exactly what is happening.

PROBcoug

11/25/22 12:11pm

This isn’t political; it’s Musk mismanaging the business. If any non-majority

BlooCoog

11/25/22 12:12pm

Keep telling yourself that.

PROBcoug

11/25/22 12:15pm

The context is absolutely political. But from the business angle, if he lost 50% of the advertisers, the more

hamaca

11/25/22 12:15pm

Agreed. Not sure he will turn it around.

PROBcoug

11/25/22 12:18pm

Well, it's a private company. He got really lucky.

Shore10

11/25/22 12:17pm

100% political. The fact you can’t see it isn’t surprising. lol

kotacoug

11/25/22 12:20pm

Or maybe it's willful

novacoug1

11/25/22 12:22pm

I hope one day I am as passionate about something as you are about hating Musk

P-Widdy

11/25/22 12:30pm

Twitter is the highest ever users and usage. So why did they pull out?

Bobmarleyjr

11/25/22 12:36pm

and the use of hateful words and phrases are 33% lower than they were pre-purchase.

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 12:40pm

Hateful words and phrases don't count when they come from the left.

TheSpiker

11/25/22 12:43pm

yeah, then it's just "accuracy, equity, and protesting."

Cougarclaw

11/25/22 4:30pm

It doesn’t distinguish between people saying it and people claiming iit’s used.

Bobmarleyjr

11/25/22 12:45pm

Twitter clarified their claim. Using the list of banned hateful words/phrases old-twitter used, then instances of those

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 12:52pm

Where is this list?

Bobmarleyjr

11/25/22 12:53pm

they have not published it...but it's things like the n word etc...

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 12:55pm

Musk just said it’s the same list Twitter had been using, but didn’t share it

BYUfan92

11/25/22 1:38pm

To virtue signal. Many will be back as there are few alternatives.

Shore10

11/25/22 6:59pm

So having standards is mismanaging business, you probably shouldn’t be a BYU fan

Jizosh

11/25/22 1:03pm

I’m pretty sure that I would hate to be around you in real life.

Grock

11/25/22 1:04pm

Understatement of the year!

TheSpiker

11/25/22 1:06pm

If you can’t see a lot of it is political….yikes

BYUfan92

11/25/22 1:44pm

Oh really? Bloocoog on Elon before his Twitter acquisition:

Abe Froman

11/25/22 1:59pm

He shoots ... he scores.

TheSpiker

11/25/22 2:02pm

RE: Oh really? Bloocoog on Elon before his Twitter acquisition:

Backcountry

11/25/22 2:07pm

It really is amazing to watch people on the left totally flip on their thoughts about Musk. The White House held an

HarlemCoug

11/25/22 2:08pm

Typical hypocrisy at its best. Trump was loved by leftists until he was a Rep!

jpal1397

11/25/22 2:10pm

Haha. Can’t think for himself once the leftist OS update goes out.

mulletino

11/25/22 2:43pm

Cracks me up people keep linking to a 4-year-old post that happened before Musk

BlooCoog

11/25/22 4:22pm

Over last 4 years Tesla went from a $50B company to ~$600B. SpaceX’s valuation

BYU'01

11/25/22 4:43pm

And Musk did a bunch of morally questionable things in his business and personal

BlooCoog

11/25/22 5:33pm

Heres an honest question. So what?

Backcountry

11/25/22 5:36pm

He’s been divorced #x & fathered a kid out of wedlock. His LT shareholders have

BYU'01

11/25/22 6:35pm

RE: This isn’t political; it’s Musk mismanaging the business. If any

FT487

11/25/22 2:40pm

RE: This isn’t political; it’s Musk mismanaging the business. If any non-majority

sethj250

11/25/22 2:45pm

Are you being serious??

SEUTAHCoug

11/25/22 4:59pm

One key - don’t go telling all of your users and customers to vote Republican.

Cswilliam01

11/25/22 3:30pm

Or you’re breaking the paradigm.

Blue Print

11/25/22 1:21pm

Let me guess. You have a MBA and now you can fix any business.

OmahaOmaha

11/25/22 1:35pm

Liberals left like they promised to leave the country if Trump was President.

jpal1397

11/25/22 2:04pm

Either Elon's doing something wrong orrrrr.....Twitter was in fact purposely

BleedCougarBlue2

11/25/22 2:05pm

This. He is owning everyone right now.

Carnac

11/25/22 11:57am

While proclaiming that Musk is LITERALLY KILLING PEOPLE!!!

Backcountry

11/25/22 11:58am

In fairness, a month ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was #167 in world wealth rankings

krindorr

11/25/22 12:12pm

Musk’s success has been much longer sustained and it has been several businesses

Ozymandias

11/25/22 12:24pm

Correct, he's been successful with Zip2 (1995), Paypal (1999), SpaceX (2002), and Tesla (2004)

krindorr

11/25/22 12:57pm

Short term lost. They’ll be back. Twitter was broken and needed a fix.

Turnpike Lane

11/25/22 11:55am

Exactly this. They will be back or they will be replaced.

IrishBlue

11/25/22 12:19pm

Better yet, be replaced with advertisers that are aligned with the new Twitter.

JAGA97

11/25/22 12:24pm

I’m guessing there’s not much Elon could have done to keep those advertisers around, aside from that verification fiasco

Mike Honcho

11/25/22 11:55am

And yet he will probably turn a profit quicker based purely on expense reduction

SnickSnack

11/25/22 11:55am

This. I bet every Big Tech company is asking the same question

jrifkin48

11/25/22 9:51pm

Well he’s also cut expenses by 75%.

RdF3

11/25/22 11:55am

Shhhh that doesn’t help the narrative

maxpowers

11/25/22 1:17pm

If I cut expenses by 75% and my ad revenue drops by 50%,am I still losing money?

Cougarclaw

11/25/22 4:32pm

Does that 75% cut include the additional billion in debt service you took on to

joelvandyne

11/25/22 6:14pm

It’s really nice we have marketing and business genius, BlooCoug, to pronounce the worlds richest man is a terrible

JohnnyComeLately

11/25/22 11:55am

Johnny, as always you’ve come late. So glad to have you to hurl the personal

BlooCoog

11/25/22 11:58am

Just send it to your mom’s house and I will be sure to pick it up.

JohnnyComeLately

11/25/22 11:59am

Mom jokes…so mature.

BlooCoog

11/25/22 12:59pm

RE: Mom jokes…so mature.

JohnnyComeLately

11/25/22 1:14pm

Be good Johnny.

BlooCoog

11/25/22 1:24pm

Welcome to MuskBoard Mrs. Musk, nice to have you here.

Mitty