Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino made the remarks in a meeting earlier this month, per the FT. It follows reports that ad sales are down 59%.
  • Linda Yaccarino said staff must deploy "hand-to-hand combat’ to win back advertisers, per the FT.
  • The Twitter CEO’s remarks follow the NYT’s report that Twitter ad sales have fallen 59% in a year.
  • Some brands have been ensuring their ads don’t appear next to Elon Musk’s tweets, per the NYT.
  • TechyDad@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The only reason that he seemed like a “Genius CEO” with SpaceX and Tesla was because those companies had layers of management dedicated to protecting the company from Musk.

    If Musk marched into Tesla and decided that all Tesla cars should have eyeball shaped headlights, managers would tell him what a genius idea that was and that they’d get right on it. Then, they’d distract him with something else while the idea went in the trash can.

    Twitter has no such management layer so every Elon Epiphany becomes Twitter policy no matter how bad or destructive it is. SpaceX and Tesla were successes despite Musk and Musk gained his “genius” reputation because those companies were able to filter out his idiocy.

    • swnt@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s an interesting perspective. Can you point to some evidence/etc. where I can read up on this situation with Tesla management “taking care” of musk?