Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Elon Drops the Hammer on Twitter: Fire 12 Floors of People? 'Exactly'

Elon Musk’s response to a weekend Twitter post no doubt sent shockwaves throughout the company’s workforce — yet again.

Business man Nick Huber posted a recording of a 2015 Investor Talk series interview of billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn. Icahn tells The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin a story about his 1984 takeover of ACF Industries, a company that manufactured railroad cars.

When Icahn first looked at ACF, he noticed the stock price was cheap relative to all the assets the company owned. He also noticed they weren’t making any money.

Shortly after striking a deal with ACF, Icahn spent a day at the company’s headquarters in New York where employees occupied twelve floors of office space. At the end of the busy day, he said, “I go home, take a look at my yellow pad. I can’t figure out what the hell they do.”

Icahn went back the next day, which didn’t make things any clearer. “I’m not an i***t. I can’t figure out what the hell they do.”

He scheduled a meeting with the company’s COO, who was based in a separate location. Icahn chuckles as he tells Sorkin, “He was like a John Wayne character. He was a captain in the Marines, a tough guy. I was scared of him.”

“I want to know how many of those guys in New York you need to support your operation here cause I honestly can’t figure out what they do. He says, ‘I’ll tell you what you should do. … You don’t have the balls to do what I’ll tell you to do. … Get rid of all of ’em all tomorrow.'”

“I still was wondering, you know, maybe this guy Joe was a little crazy,” Icahn said. “How could I get rid of 12 floors of people?”

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So he hired a group of consultants from Columbia University to find out what the people did. Three weeks and $250,000 later, they came back to Icahn and said, “We don’t know what they do either.”

“Got rid of the whole twelve floors,” Icahn said. “It was like out of a science fiction movie. They never existed.”

Musk watched the clip and replied, “Exactly.”

Yes, his remark was made in jest. But Musk didn’t become Twitter’s largest shareholder to sit on the sidelines.

He intends to make his mark on this company. After becoming a member of the social media platform’s board of directors, the self-described free-speech absolutist amended his SEC filing to reflect that his interest in Twitter was no longer “passive” but “active.”

This company has amassed far too much power. And frankly, after listening to Twitter’s arrogant new CEO, Parag Agrawal, my guess is his prattling on about how they determine who can and can’t be heard didn’t sit well with too many Americans.

In a 2018 interview with MIT Technology Review, Twitter’s current CEO Parag Agrawal, who was 33-years-old at the time and serving as chief technology officer, said the company should “focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.”

“Where our role is particularly emphasized is who can be heard … And so increasingly our role is moving towards how we recommend content … how we direct people’s attention,” he added.

Shortly after Agrawal took over as CEO, this quote was unearthed. Musk reacted at the time with the following tweet.

As for “firing twelve floors of people,” it might be too much to ask. That said, layoffs are typically one of the first orders of business following a shakeup like this.

Musk should start with Agrawal.

Either way, it will be fun to watch.

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ELON MUSK.......MY FAVORITE AFRICAN-AMERICAN!!!!!

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

He's my favorite South African American.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

It will be fun. Be nice to see these progressive assholes at Twitter get bullied.

Iliamna1

It would be interesting to know how many resumes have gone out from Twitter employees this last week. I'd wager more than a few.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

F**ebook, and Google ("Be Evil") will be happy to hire all of them.

Big Kahuna

I got several applications from Twitter employees to work at my firm. They all said, "Will work for food."

Big Kahuna

In fact Suckerberg is having them send their applications for employment by the thousands of mail-in b****t boxes that he illegally placed in the contested toss up states. He is even having those mail-in boxes stuffed with f**e Twitter applications after midnight by paid post office employees. He wants to try and steal Musk's power from him like he stole Trump's p**********l re-e******n.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

And how many had references from Twitter

Iliamna1

It doesn't matter now. Elon Musk has decided NOT to be on the Twitter Board of directors. I really wish he hadn't changed his mind.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

He can buy additional shares, not be limited to less than 15%, and have an even bigger say as a publically outspoken critic of the company. A better way to combat the f*****ts who are practicing censorship.

Wonttakeitanymore

A true patriot! He also said he wanted to turn their offices into homeless shelters cause they don’t cl one to work anymore!!!

Wonttakeitanymore

Now he can buy them out and not have to adhere to their rules! He knows what he’s doing! Hostile takeover! Smart man!!

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

True! He has been a very outspoken critic of Twitter and he wouldn't be able to do that if he was on the board since he would have a fiduciary responsibility to the company.

PZG1225 Loc: Florida

I'm glad he changed his mind. He can do far more off the board than on, and I'm sure that was his motivating factor. At least one of them.

Iliamna1

I hope you're right. Twitter and the rest of the one-sided platforms need a good take down! Some of these people need to read the First Amendment . . . And understand it! We are a free people precisely because of our Constitution and the rule of law based on those principles.