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Re:Threads, an Instagram App by mullingitover on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @12:37AM (#36582292)
> He’s trying to make Twitter able to pay its own bills.

He could've bought seats on the board to accomplish this through standard shareholder activism. By committing a leveraged buyout and saddling the company with an additional >1 billion a year in added debt payments, while simultaneously driving advertising revenue into the ground, he's basically sent the company on a beeline toward insolvency.

Re:Threads, an Instagram App by thrashh on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:22PM (#36592056)
I didn’t say he did anything right.

I’m just saying his goals and his poor ability to achieve them.