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Business Scholarship and Critical Evaluation of Tech Leaders

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04 November 2022 14h44

I think some of the stuff you see as Musk criticisms were not meant as Musk criticisms (this wasn’t). But I also think it is important to make the business scholarship I share relevant, and to make sure people aren’t blindly emulating successful role models, so it does come up.

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Tech Layoffs Signal Worsening Business Outlook and Market Shift

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04 November 2022 12h55

Tech Layoffs Reflect Worsening Outlook. Enterprise technology so far has been a relative bright spot. That may continue, but with a growing emphasis on services crucial to running a business and can be monetized right away. ⁦ https://
wsj.com/articles/analy
sis-tech-layoffs-reflect-worsening-outlook-11667523187
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Will They Continue to Maintain the API?

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04 November 2022 7h15

I genuinely wonder if they'll even keep the API

Twitter’s $1bn annual debt burden from leveraged buyout

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04 November 2022 5h39

Yeah I find it pretty frustrating that Twitter-the-company is now on the hook for $1bn/year interest payments pay off the loan that was effectively used to reward the previous shareholders with a tidy multiple

Amazon’s Financial Strength vs Twitter’s Billion Dollar Debt Burden

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04 November 2022 3h15

Amazon can afford to pay well. Twitter now owes $1bn/year in interest payments, which is more than they've ever made in profit.

Musk’s Twitter Lenders Prepare to Hold $127 Billion Debt

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04 November 2022 3h14

I mean at this point it wouldn't surprise me. The banks don't see to think they'll get their money back https://
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ce/musks-lenders-prepare-hold-127-bln-twitter-debt-books-until-early-2023-ft-2022-11-01/
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Half company departures following major acquisition deal closing

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04 November 2022 2h58

Half the company within seven days of the deal closing?

CEO Leadership Fails to Understand Social Media Product Strategy

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04 November 2022 2h56

I don't think strategies that work for building spaceships (projects where people will tolerate a LOT of bad culture for the chance to work on them) are going to work for a social media service – especially not when the new CEO clearly doesn't understand /why/ the product works