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I was surprised the media failed to cover those secret Tesla layoffs. If Tesla software engineers with many years of tenure were let go with 1 week (!!) of severance, how much more generous would Musk be with Twitter engineers?

For anyone trying to make sense of Musk having Twitter engineers print out their code and show it to Tesla engineers… my view is we don’t need to look far to see what is happening.

Elon doesn’t like to pay severance. From my coverage in Tesla’s secret layoffs in The Pragmatic Engineer:

New deet in our story today: Looks like first round of Twitter layoffs will be in the trust and safety and legal org (Vijaya Gadde’s former org that oversees content policy) washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

how it started, how it's printing platformer.news/p/elon-takes-o…

wait til rahul’s mom finds out about this

How many of the many millions of lines of code across dozens of repos do you think they went through?

When I left Twitter the iOS app alone was well over 2.5 million lines of code.

News: Andreessen Horowitz is the investor behind Andy Rubin's new startup. Marc Andreessen is on the board. It's interesting to try news in this format, where the story can also be kind of a discussion. I'd welcome thoughts, opinion, criticism on it. semafor.com/article/10/28/…

New: An emboldened cast of trolls has spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours since Elon Musk freed the bird. Musk says no 'free-for-all hellscape,' but hate is already rampant: One post screaming the n-word has more than 4,000 likes wapo.st/3Fn5Cje

People do not realize how much Vijaya Gadde did for free speech. Twitter is less of a free speech platform without her.

Musk has taken control of Twitter. His first acts were to fire the CEO, CFO, and head of policy.

Developing story: washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

NEW: Three top Twitter executives were fired Thursday as Elon Musk took control of the company. Parag Agrawal, Ned Segal and Vijaya Gadde all hastily shuttled out of the building. washingtonpost.com/technology/202… Musk now in control of Twitter w/Elizabeth Dwoskin

Exclusive: Women of color running for office are four times as likely as white candidates to face violent threats on social media, a new CDT study found. They’re also twice as likely as other candidates to be targeted with mis and disinformation. washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

Telegram is testing pay to view posts?!

Michael Karnjanaprakorn medium.com/@bryce/one-rou…

I like this new trend of tech companies raising one round of capital.

• No A, B, C, D, Z rounds.
• No growth at all costs.
• No one in a million shot of a unicorn.

Just build a sustainable and profitable business with a lot of optionality:

Breaking: Argo AI is shutting down, with Ford CEO Jim Farley acknowledging 'fully autonomous vehicles at scale
are a long way off'

Good read from ⁦Nitasha Tiku⁩: The billion-dollar tech unicorn is becoming rare again washingtonpost.com/technology/202…