There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter

Re:There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter by theHNAcct on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:24PM (#31173382)

I agree with most points here but surprised by "Musk is not a coder and has never worked for a company that develops code as a core business function". He was a part of x.com / PayPal

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Re:There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter by abc_lisper on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:39PM (#31173516)

Yeah, the author didn't seem to do his homework here. Musk is extremely competent at programming. Wrote and sold a game when he was 12, started and ran two s/w companies. He approaches real world like its software - that it can molded as he likes.

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Re:There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter by nowherebeen on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:38PM (#31173505)

I think that’s a partly fair assessment. He hasn’t code in decades, saying he is a coder when 99% of his career is management is wrong.

PayPal isn’t a social network. They are different beast altogether. Elon likes to work on companies with tangible assets such a money transfer, cars or rockets. Social media’s asset is attention seeking from users. That’s much harder to monetize. Only ads have been able to stick.

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Re:There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter by sgt on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:12PM (#31173811)

How do you know this? I find it very likely he has written some code here and there through the years. Whether that is Python, C++, Matlab or R, who knows. As chief scientist at SpaceX he at least needs to do some modelling on a regular basis that requires - at minimum - tweaks to some code.

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Re:There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter by nowherebeen on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:21PM (#31173893)

What?! Do you know what the job of a CEO is? I answer your comment with your question. How do you know he tweaks some code? What proof do you have?

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Re:There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter by gizajob on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:18AM (#31177936)

Board meeting -

"How's, like, the code that gets the spaceship in the air and back down again. Is it all working ok?"

"Yes Elon, should work fine. It's basically just typing."

"Great! Should work without any problems."

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Re:There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter by sgt on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:55AM (#31178115)

Sure, it's speculation, but remember that he is the Chief Scientist (think CTO) as well as CEO. Major technical decisions go through him.

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Re:There’s a Reason No Smart Buyer Already Purchased Twitter by wittycardio on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @08:24PM (#31174829)

In an Elon fan's eyes there's nothing he can't do !

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