Jaynit (@jaynitx) “Walter Isaacson reveals how Elon Musk fired 85% of Twitter's employees in three” — TopicDigg

Walter Isaacson reveals how Elon Musk fired 85% of Twitter's employees in three rounds and why "He brought in the engineers and figured the amount of people doing Tesla full self-driving and autopilot software was about one-tenth of what was doing software for Twitter. He said this can't be the case" "He fired 85% in three different rounds. First was firing people because they had a team from Tesla's autopilot team grading the code written in the past year. Then he fired people who didn't seem totally all in or loyal. Then another round of layoffs" "At each step, almost everybody says that's enough, it's going to destroy things. They were partly right. There was degradation of the service, but not as much as half the services I use" "He has an algorithm. Question every requirement, then delete delete delete. And the corollary, if you don't end up adding back 20% of what you deleted, you didn't delete enough in the first round" "You asked me if he overdid it. He probably overdid it by 20%, which is his formula"