Elon Musk covers everything from layoffs to aliens in Q&A with Twitter employees

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Elon Musk covers everything from layoffs to aliens in Q&A with Twitter employees

By Theo Wayt
June 16, 2022

Elon Musk staged a town hall meeting with Twitter employees on Thursday, addressing everything from layoffs and remote work to politics and aliens as he appeared to double down on his $44 billion commitment to take over the company.

Asked about whether he would slash jobs at Twitter if the deal goes through, Musk gave an ominous response, reportedly saying, “Right now, costs exceed revenue. That’s not a great situation.”

“The company does need to get healthy,” added Musk.

Notably, Twitter’s rank and file failed to specifically ask Musk the biggest question on Wall Street right now — namely, whether he plans to negotiate down the sale price for the company or is considering backing out of the deal altogether.

Twitter shares fell more than 2.4% to $37.06 on Thursday afternoon — far below the deal price of $54.20 a share — indicating mounting investor skepticism about the deal.

During the video question-and-answer session, Musk told Twitter employees that he has “moderate politics” and is “pretty close to center” but said that extreme political views and “pretty outrageous things” should be allowed on the site as long as they don’t violate the law, Bloomberg reported.

Musk also reiterated that he was leaning toward supporting Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for president in 2024, the New York Times reported.

In response to employee questions, Musk said that top performing Twitter employees could be allowed to work from home forever, but that it is “much better if you are on location physically.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/06/16/elon-musk-talks-layoffs-aliens-in-qa-with-twitter-employees/

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Musk meets the Twitter crew

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/06/musk-meets-the-twitter-crew.php

Powerline by Scott Johnson 6/17/2022

Project Veritas has posted excerpts of yesterday’s internal Twitter all-hands meeting with Elon Musk (video below, also posted here on YouTube). Addressing Twitter’s employees for the first time since news broke of his plans to acquire the company — let it be — Project Veritas highlighted the following points :

• “I think it’s essential to have free speech,” Musk said on the call after describing his affinity for Twitter. He added that “multiple opinions” should exist on Twitter to “make sure that we’re not sort of driving a narrative.”

• Musk was asked about his political leanings (“moderate”), his plans for layoffs and the direction of the company. Sweat it, peons!

• Musk also discussed his vision for Twitter, saying that traditional news media is “negative” and that they “almost never” get it right. “I think an important goal for Twitter would be to try to include as, as much of the country, as much of the world as possible,” Musk added.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcxCt7KSTXs