Elon's AGILE Takeover (of Twitter) | Experts don't get Elon bc Experts don't get AGILE!

[@sspoonless]

I completely agree. I'm a retired programmer who went into place after place after place, boldly discovering the issues wiping out old messes & rewriting code. The opposition I ran into was incredible, including slow-pokes reading my resume & presuming that what I claimed to have done was impossible. An exceptional programmer is easily worth several of the opposite.

[@andreh.dupuis8475]

Yes I fully agree with you, being an SAP functional consultant I have worked with developers at both ends of the spectrum, I would say the best are easily 3 times as good as the average and wont comment about the worse..😊

[@josephlemieux5909]

@@andreh.dupuis8475 actually more like 8-10x more effective than the ave.

[@LegendaryInfortainment]

How absolutely not surprising. The KLOC and MLOC were becoming kings I suppose. You have to be extra special to do in 1000 lines of code what a real programmer does in 100, but 1000 is MORE……… better, right? It was really hard to do very good assembly work with just 8 bits and 64k address spaces, but was done none the less. Care became very lax as “things got bigger”.

[@timothyblazer1749]

Precisely the same story with me. They don't believe my CV. They then quiz me, get scared, and hang up the phone.

[@andreh.dupuis8475]

@@timothyblazer1749 well you’ll need to tone it down if you want to work 😊 it’s called a white lie..

[@jeffkrupke3810]

I support Elon 100% as he is changing the world for better. But dealing with Elon FUD sucks.

[@denisharding5606]

Maybe you have forgotten that the first Internal Combustion Engine sucked. No company or government believed that space rockets could be reusable. Think future.

[@ConnectingODots]

I hear you. FUD is gut wrenching

[@Pikminiman]

I just think it's funny that Elon made his first two fortunes from the internet, but now that he's redoing Twitter, the media wants to paint him as just a car guy with no place at an internet tech company.

[@claudiahansen4938]

Great point.

[@MrAllister9]

wait .. you have no idea do you Elon bought Twitter to save free speech ... remember that? You peoples love and adoration for other males like TRUMP and ELON is super creepy ... just sayin

[@kstaxman2]

Exactly right.. LOL

[@MrAllister9]

hes redoing twitter .... HAHAHAHA nice choice of words ... YOU"RE ALL FIRED PLEASE COME BACK IM RELEASING PRIVATE INFO ... When are the lawsuits gonna start i wonder Its clear ELON is an idiot that just has never been told no before YOU NEVER MET SOMEONE LIKE HIM BEFORE ... mhmm TRUMP

[@BarryObaminable]

as a used car guy. hahaha who doesnt know what he is talking about

[@SmithsMobile]

Asking if Elon will fix it is just a stupid question, he doesn't know how to fail ; )

[@echoeversky]

Correction: Mr. Musk knows how to fail fast.

[@robertmartens7839]

@@echoeversky Again and again, it is his strongest point

[@MrAllister9]

Adoration for another male is a bit cringy ... theres no such thing as super heroes ... not with those manboobs he's not

[@EAdams-BXR]

@@echoeversky thanks I was going to say the same

[@jaydensdream714]

@@echoeversky I'm gonna name 3 successful companies now you go ahead and name one that failed. I'm waiting. Did you know Elon has the boring company up and running in Vegas. He can take 1000 lbs to orbit for 1/30th the cost that nasal could. 30 years ago. Adjusted for inflation 1/80th the price.

[@brianlaurie6142]

It reminds me of a quote I memorized… “Those who never make mistakes never make anything.” I applaud you for seeing the obvious when the main stream media and casual observer see chaos and bewilderment on how Elon has taken over Twitter. Thanks for sharing your agile experience!

[@leonardsensui7835]

Great video Thank You! Elon is amazing! He has no fear… laying off 75% of previous staff and still succeeding rapidly!!!

[@Dontslaythybroski]

Bro you killed it.. Thank you for your service!

[@markdebeer1252]

Never heed to those who say "I told you so", if they really knew, why didn't they DO what they knew? You, didn't know but did. Please . . . this next question and answer will hopefully sum Elon up. " Can you have a BAD experience? " The outcome, result or reward may be bad, BUT, by the definition of experience, you should have learnt something. LEARNING anything, no matter what, adds to experience, this is always GOOD. Go ELON GO!

[@WentzCraft]

Oh man this is going to age very good, Props!

[@DarkHawkk]

One of the extremely well researched video on Twitter Fiasco. Great work bro 👌💥💫

[@FluffyBearInSpace]

Brilliant insights. It's a messaging app. If there is a repository with million lines with Scala programming, this is probably mostly doing redactive work. Work that should be done by AI. Replacing all of this by learning AI models is clearly the way to go. These millions lines of code do not need to be rewriten, they should not be there in the first place. This would also tie in with his pursuit of objectivity. I do believe Elon has a higher aspiration for the platform, maybe expanding functionality with a global payment system of even a direct voting platform. For this he needs to restore a lot of trust in it's integrity for being a platform without any political bias or motivation.

[@idmhead0160]

That's a laugh. I remember when people said the same thing about CASE tools in the 90s. You don't have a clue what you are talking about.

[@AJPemberton]

"For this, he needs to restore a lot of trust in its integrity for being a platform without any political bias or motivation." ... so his tweet saying to vote Republican was not political?

[@davekozlowski1266]

@@AJPemberton no, allowing people to say vote democrat or Republican isn't political, it's free speech.

[@avgjoe5969]

Voicing an opinion isn't blocking someone else from voicing their own. So long as both sides get to talk and he is transparent as planned, then yes. He can tamp down political bias and allow people to speak their mind. In a free country, people get to speak their mind. They aren't protected from hateful speech. They counter it with facts and nullify it. "Moderating speach" is the new name for Censorship, that bulwark of Propaganda and friend to Tyrants everywhere.

[@danielch6662]

@@davekozlowski1266 you don't get it. Imagine that you go to vote. At every voting station, there is ultimately a person in charge of that voting station. The boss/manager that all the other officials there answer to. He has competently assign and delegated all the necessary tasks. Everyone are properly trained and know what they are doing. Things are going smoothly. But he himself has no immediate task. He is just walking around overseeing things. He knows that in a few hours, he will have to help cover for the team as some of them take turns going for lunch. Meanwhile, since he has nothing to do, he decided to just greet the voters arriving to vote, to shake their hands, thank them for showing up to do their duty, and to remind them to please remember to vote for the Democratic candidate! You see the problem here? The platform needs to be unbiased. If the platform is privately owned by one person, THAT person cannot appear to be biased. That is to appear to favour one side. If you still cannot understand, imagine that global warming caused hell to freeze over, Grimes came back, and Elon is a Democrat again. And in 2024, he says _vote Democrats_ . If you're still fine with that, then I've nothing to say. But remember, even if Grimes didn't come back, Elon may not remain Republican forever.

[@LoisSharbel]

Love the information you reveal in this! Elon is amazing and surrounded by powerful forces endeavoring to bring him down. Keep up this good work!

[@LegendaryInfortainment]

You are far more faithful than possibly the best known geothermal vent this planet knows (fortunately not as old), and easily twice as entertaining while being orders of magnitude more informative. Having watched both you and Joe describe the aggressive implementation of Agile which Elon employs, I knew that energy came through the door with Elon, and won't be leaving. I got a big hoot out of watching the lamestream media gyrate and describe their rather obvious state of cluelessness, it's just better with your added narration though. Thanks so much again, I always look forward to your insights much as I do for Joe, SMR, and so many other fine content creators.

[@davedickson7068]

Superb analysis 🤜💥🤛

[@maxminor496]

My many decades of experience require me to recognize Musk's genius. Substandard minds have always feared and hated genius minds.

[@LegendaryInfortainment]

@@maxminor496 I absolutely concur. The blame for educational enmity falls squarely on the system which creates it though. Ninety plus percent of the world's educational systems suck raw effluent.

[@UndergroundTech]

That guy in the intro has it out for Elon, and has been dead wrong on stock predictions like tesla

[@markchambers5729]

My bets are on Elon. Think of the boy wonder who coded his way to millions...Elon and his brother. The 12 year old kid who coded a game that started his journey...Elon. Lest the people at Twitter and the mainstream media forget? One of the keys to Elon's success is not that he fails, but rather he knows how to fail. His failures escalate his climb to the top. Many people spend their lives trying to figure out how to map success to give them direction. Elon moves and fails. Those failures give him the directions toward success in real time. If one wants to understand the genius of what Elon is doing, one needs to shut up long enough to listen and observe what he's doing, not others' perception of what he is saying and doing. You have connected the dots well, my friend!

[@andrasbiro3007]

Elon already won. Twitter didn't collapse, it's improving. Toxic content didn't explode, it's actually down. Instead positive content is exploding. User count is growing every day. Now even advertisers are coming back. With advertisers back, the imminent launch of a better subscription, and the brutal cost cuts, Twitter should be profitable already. That's the last piece of the puzzle. And with each day passing, the new culture and new code replaces more and more of the old, solidifying Elon's win. Without the slow grind of growing from zero, Twitter can be a media giant and a money printer in no time. Not to mention turning it into the "everything app". Trillion dollar market cap is coming, and probably more. Compared to Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, this is child's play. A website versus a chip that can read your mind? Saying that these are not in the same league is the understatement of the century.

[@spinnymathingy3149]

Well, if the advertisers leaving in droves , around 80% of twitter’s income has gone, whoosh, shows the contempt people have for Elon

[@davekozlowski1266]

@@spinnymathingy3149 whoosh, 75% of the dead weight (overhead) is gone too.

[@spinnymathingy3149]

@@davekozlowski1266 suppose give it a few years and see

[@andrasbiro3007]

@@spinnymathingy3149 Meanwhile in reality, according to a fresh study, ad spending on Twitter returned to the previous level. So with the brutal cost cuts and new revenue source, Twitter should be comfortably profitable now.

[@spinnymathingy3149]

@@andrasbiro3007 well, as of a few days ago ,, (copied)⬇️ Musk Struggles to Retain Twitter Advertisers Ad revenue projections have fallen to $1.1 billion from $1.4 billion By SAM HELLER Published December 05, 2022

[@mdeasy]

What a gift to humanity Elon is!! So grateful to be here to witness the utter insanity of today and Elon giving us all hope for a better earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aristideau5072]

Finally, a video that accurately describes Elon's plan. When I heard that Elon was expecting developers to work a minimum of 8 hours a day I thought to myself the 'exceptionals' as you call them, are already working those (and more) hours. The move was a brilliant way of automatically getting rid of the dead weight. The current company I am working for has actually enforced a maximum number of hours (8) that we need to work a day to avoid burn out.

[@matthewdunstone4431]

Another thoughtful, researched episode. I really like this channel. As a Tesla investor, I perceived Twitter as a dumpster fire distraction from the stuff that is important. Actually, I still perceive Twitter as a distraction, but perhaps it isn’t the dumpster fire I thought it was. Free speech is something you miss when you haven’t got it. I understand how important it is. But I can’t get behind Elon on Twitter. Free speech could have been someone else’s crusade. Elon already five full time jobs.

[@echoeversky]

The purchasing of Twitter by Mr Musk was a must do. Mr Musk had to secure means of communications to the world.

[@matthewdunstone4431]

@@echoeversky anyone else in the world could have chosen to do this. It did not have to be Mr Musk. Now Elon is working 120 hour weeks at Twitter (his words) and diverting resources away from his other businesses.

[@wincoffin7985]

@@echoeversky OK, I'm not brilliant like Elon. But my conventional mind says: NO, just hire a small Tesla PR department, also an IR (investor relations) Dept, and communicate with the world the conventional way. But Elon thinks in his own way, and I allow for the possibility it will turn out well .... But as a shareholder, it's a scary, bumpy ride.

[@danielch6662]

@@wincoffin7985 Twitter is Elon's kryptonite. We already know this from years ago. All the trouble he got into. I can only speculate that with Grimes gone, there's just nobody around left to hold him back and stop him from indulging in his worse habits. I don't have any money in Tesla. But his buying Twitter is a pointless useless distraction. Just when are we getting to Mars? Will I ever get to try his hyperloop? Elon has got to learn to prioritise. There are people continually telling us that he has some secret plan to make Twitter enormously profitable. Well, I think that is as likely as the secret plan that President Trump had to make Mexico pay for that wall. We were promised that in 2016. The world's best negotiator, a certified genius, would reveal it after he was elected. Well ... I think Twitter Blue was it, if he ever had anything. Elon is floundering. I will believe it once I see his secret strategy. All the appologists are just speculating wildly, with many saying that he will just turn Twitter into a superapp like WeChat. That's just crazy. It's not like nobody else outside China has heard of WeChat. Zuck already tried and got nowhere. The circumstances that allowed WeChat to achieve dominance was unique to China, at the time. WeChat itself tried to expand it's payment services into two other countries that already had a significant installed base of it's chat app (without payment services), but it failed to get any traction. That is despite a marketing campaign that included throwing money at new users who sign up. Even if he makes Twitter profitable, what does that matter? To you, to me, to everybody else but Elon and his kids. He doesn't have enough billions already. It's only money. There's always going to be another rich guy on Earth. Whether it is Elon or somebody else, I don't care. When are we going to colonize Mars?

[@cifey]

@@wincoffin7985 Lead engineers ought to have/use their power to fire the CEO, and thus keep him in line.

[@stephenfgillis]

You have phenomenal content. I hope you can produce more, more often. 😁

[@AndyZach]

Yes, Elon will succeed with Twitter. Clarity of vision is what he brings. Everyone gets on board and agrees to work their butts off. The speed is already there. People forget Elon also has a bunch of great software developers at SpaceX and Tesla. He has no problem loaning them to Twitter until the job is done. He's probably already paying them in high six figures.

[@AJPemberton]

'Loaning your software developers from SpaceX and Tesla to Twitter?!! That would be a crazy thing to do. Are you just going to halt development in these companies while you fix the mess you made by firing so many software developers in Twitter? Not to mention the coding for each is likely to be very different and would take some time to transition between.

[@sorenp1332]

Elon is a gift, we are so Lucky He Is a good man, we are so privileged to live at his time and watch his brilliance live, I’m my humble opinion He is the smartest man ever lived But he has a heart of gold and Is humble and relatable Absolute legend

[@Jimmy_Jones]

I support all the effort going into creating change. My only doubts are if the government starts interfering.

[@Mrbfgray]

FBI was (probably still is) infiltrating Twitter and the entire Establishment Machine is doing all it can to steamroll Elon, 4 investigations since his acquisition of Twitter, evil Hate Stream Media pretending Twitter files are a nothing burger and that Elon is bad...yeah they ARE interfering, it's been their job description for many yrs now. Definitely need to abolish the DHS and probably the FBI as well.

[@ConnectingODots]

Huge threat

[@rgeraldalexander4278]

Thanks! I don't know enough about programing and code to have my own opinion, but what you're saying sounds logical and realistic. We'll see what happens.

[@musk-eteer9898]

i'm in for a long haul, up or down, all in with Elon til the end.

[@youtuberpov]

Great summary and analysis of what happen to Elon's twitter takeover.

[@nelsonmacy1010]

Elon will definitely succeed! Try to get Joe Justice on your show. Love your content! More please

[@ConnectingODots]

I do hope to. Huge respect for the guy 👏 But want to do a few other interviews before I try diving into Agile with him.

[@rudyromo]

My $ is with Elon. Literally. Another great video. Grazie Mille!

[@DonBrowningRacing]

Elon will succeed! You have done a great service with this report and your analysis! You are worth much more than Gold! Keep it up!

[@josephlemieux5909]

This was an excellent summary and analysis. 💯

[@RussInGA]

Thank you for making this video. Very on point. Liked and subscribed!

[@bobmorgan3034]

Great video, I finally subscribed, your content is amazing!

[@gfbprojects1071]

I am 72 years old and an old waterfall guy. My experience with the Agile world has been perihperal, but a project is a project, and what Musk has done with Twitter is pure genius. Allowing the uncommitted to bail out early saves him millions leaving 500 exceptionals who are going to make a bigger difference than 1500 not-so-greats doing the same old stuff over and over.

[@Indecisive7337]

Let's be blunt here, I'm thick! But because if this video I feel I'm now more knowledgable then almost all the News Journalist's who have been sprouting doom and gloom since Elon took over Twitter! So, for doing that I can't thank you enough. Thank you.

[@idmhead0160]

Unfortunately, you are now thicker after watching this video

[@Indecisive7337]

Well as they say where I come from... It takes one to know one!

[@ConnectingODots]

LOL thank you guys for the kind words as well as the humor!

[@colingenge9999]

It seems as if the media is taking such a shallow view of what Elon might be doing with Twitter without ever thinking that there could be a deeper purpose.

[@sorenp1332]

I am so happy I found this channel I wish we could have invested in channels like in startups this channel is the next big thing Keep it up man

[@ArizVern]

ELON OWNS IT: LET IT SINK IN!

[@McClarinJ]

Super interesting! Thanks for putting this together!

[@MagnusBerger]

Very professional! Thank you!

[@forthrightnight]

Very correct. Should Elon's Twitter account have been suspended, he would have had no way to further his message. Media would have cropped anything he said into wildly out of context sound bites. Building his own town square would have taken valuable time. Twitter had the followers and was available. GM and Ford are spending approximately 2.4B each per year on advertising. Twitter is now Elon's advertising venue for all his endeavors. Elon will soon start making money with Twitter and it will eventually become an asset, not an ongoing, never ending, advertising expense. Also correct: we are watching history in the making. This time period will be taught in schools for generations to come as the turning point in the planets life, away from fossil fuels and towards renewables. Where will we be in 100 years??

[@ConnectingODots]

I hope to be there to find out. It's possible I;m too optimistic, but doing my best to be right on this one.

[@colingenge9999]

Too bad that America is not learning the lessons that he’s teaching them about how to make profitable businesses in the toughest markets there are.

[@blakebarber4158]

Love your content. Keep it up!

[@AlphaCrucis]

This channel is golden! Thank you!

[@briansorensen5102]

Wow, a real experienced software engineer with a based take.

[@GB-ob5zx]

I think that in science a “failed” experiment usually still increases knowledge and Elon’s approach has always been first principle physics and engineering

[@MossMini]

As a Tesla share holder: Elon buying Twitter is crucial, necessary to achieving his missions.

[@ConnectingODots]

As harsh as it is short term, long term I fully agree

[@danielschmidt2186]

He should make Twitter a DAO with governance abilities that can be applied to new communities and organizations who wish to develop democratic systems but do not have the infrastructure.

[@georged8644]

This boondoggle is a perfect example of frAgile in action! No plan, no design, no documentation, no testing, just random thrashing about accomplishing nothing but a torrent of completely predictable bugs due a totally arbitrary schedule imposed by an erratic manager! It is a guaranteed failure!

[@hphillips7425]

Excellent video as usual I hope for the best for Elon and twitter

[@Mrbfgray]

Will he save us from becoming the USSA is the real question.

[@citizenblue]

Keep 'em coming!!

[@FreedomFinanceFun]

Great quotes from Chamath

[@denniss1211]

My problem with elon taking Twitter is solely the sale of Tesla stock... which I own as a very small amount and am retired so this is a REALLY big deal for me (I think he could care less). Aside from that I don't understand what the "main stream media" has to do with what is done at Twitter as long as the service is still available to the want to be users. It is really .... none of their business. The politicians should stay totally out of this ... unless a law is broken. Elon could fix the Tesla stock problem immediately just by buying a billion dollars of Tesla stock real fast and thus kill the short sellers. Very good vid.

[@gazlives]

i wouldn't worry about tesla stock, the crash is temporary and in line with other tech stock (FB 70%). tesla will still 5x in the next 5 years.

[@echoeversky]

The stock is fine. Buy the dip or sell.

[@Dowdyguy]

So, being raised with the thought that structured code was necessary for communicating to following programmers, I was slow. Is an AGILE thinking programmer not at all interested in taking the time to structure (and comment) his lines of code? It is very time consuming to create a quickly understood framework in your lines of code. At least, it was for me. I was accused of being 'too slow' even though my final code always worked, and I was even phoned and complemented by a programmer years after I made a system, because it was 'so easy and fast' to make necessary changes.

[@wincoffin7985]

I totally relate to your comment -- I had a similar style. Maybe too much: I'd even polish my comments, proof reading them, getting them right... Yes, I was slow, but it sure paid off when I'd go back weeks/years later to understand how and why I coded something the way I did. But I will say, I was in the minority. It's just how my mind worked. Give me enough time, and I could solve anything, no matter how complex. But I'm not sure it was always appreciated!

[@idmhead0160]

Don't you know, your code can just be thrown out and replaced by AI as another Elon kiss as who knows nothing about coding stated in another comment??? Speaking of AI, half the comments on here are probably bots the video maker used to try to make his video look better.

[@ConnectingODots]

@@idmhead0160 not using any Bots. Had I used, my sub count would have been much higher

[@ConnectingODots]

AAARGH, wrote a long detailed answer and it got erased. Redoing... Answering both of you. I am all FOR writing readable and maintainable code. I did this myself, never wanted to work with smartassses who wrote complicated for sake of complexity, and kudos to you guys for doing the same. However, python enables this without putting in all the effort. The syntax is highly readable (often the documentation is the code itself), it uses lots and lots of well debuggdmed and documented libraries (instead of writing a function, debugging and documenting you just use it, ready-made) and it uses higher level data structures and dynamic semantics, which simplify it a lot. Result is that development time is MUCH shorter, while still retaining readable code, sorry - while having MORE readable and maintainable code. It IS slower than Scala and Java, but ARGUABLY modern interpreted code should be faster than ancient precompiled. Also there are many ways to speed it up. Let's say making a table takes 2 hours. If I ask you to do it in 1 you think "it could work, if I don't mind how the screws are inserted, don't care about polish and looks - but that's not how I want the table" I agree, but Agile means making a simpler to build table with same functionality and finish and using better tools

[@christopherfry2844]

I wrote Fortran (mostly F66) for my own business and I developed habits of writing the code so it was clear to me what the code was doing. Apart from a comment line at the top of a subroutine I rarely wrote comments. I loved Fortran's implicit typing and made some implicit rules of my own. I used to look at the pompous verbosity of C code and laugh.

[@a1asdairpage]

6:17 CNBS 😂 Shout out to Steven Mark Ryan

[@FrontierMetals]

Twitter is FUN now. Being able to speak openly is refreshing!

[@chrishvs]

You mentioned on day six, Elon, let go of a bunch of people, and how could he know who to let go. For some reasons you mentioned about Twitter being X percent too big, Elon did ask his managers to fire a certain percentage of their people all the way up to chain. Managers often know who their top performers are. Great report by the way.

[@ConnectingODots]

Thanks!

[@mynameismatt2010]

I’d hardly call Scott Galloway an expert on anything except maybe marketing, maybe.

[@ConnectingODots]

He's shown online as one. MSM loves "Experts" to bring cred to the narrative

[@FluffyGoat91515]

This is very thought provoking, thank you!

[@meesterJos]

Let THAT sink in. (Not let it sink in)

[@ConnectingODots]

True. I def botched it, lol

[@markborreson]

Brilliant!

[@okobojishenanigans2338]

Agile takeover is a perfect and simple explanation of Elon's entire operating system

[@mdick85]

"experts know how things are done historically, not how things should be done"

[@ConnectingODots]

Should be "Experts" with air quotation marks, lol

[@johannesdolch]

The funny thing is if People understood Elons actual plans for Twitter they'd probably go into hysterics. (Hint: "I could do it from scratch but the acquisition of Twitter would accelerate the advent of X by years." Does that sound like he is trying to earn some money on social media? Every single one of Elons companies solves an existential threat. Twitter is no different.)

[@excalibor2201]

Excellent, well done

[@colingenge9999]

Main stream media‘s story on Elon firing most of Twitter’s workforce was mild compared to how it triggered 99% of the comments to be truly hateful. Accusing him of buying Twitter and simply taking the credit then SpaceX getting funded by huge government handouts concluding that Elon was the biggest ConMan that ever existed And in the worst examples equating him to trumpian style ethics. The most important story not reported on was how Elizabeth Warren constantly trashed Elon for refusing to pay his taxes if somehow it was an option. Ironic in a year that he paid $38 billion in taxes. The Democrats failed to realize that Elon is a lot more popular than their entire party and may have actually swayed the election in the Republicans favor. A small percentage of Elon‘s followers voting Republican as he suggested may have prevented the Democrats from getting a larger majority in the Senate and a majority in the House. Even though the Democrats are flawed, at least they generally follow rules, norms and laws that Republicans feel are optional. Great topic: do a statistical analysis to see how many seats the Democrats gave up by needlessly attacking Elon. The extreme hatefulness of those commenting on negative Twitter stories was disturbing. Mostly Democrats and bots since they repeated the same few stories.

[@ConnectingODots]

Was mildly aware that discrediting him for Tesla was popular again and didn't know same went for SpaceX. I even saw an automotive journalist replying on my CTO friend's FB that Elon was kicked out of PayPal, and failed his way up on both Tesla and SpaceX She asked him how lucky does one have to be to become head of a company that (regardless of him) becomes world leader in EVs and another company which (regardless of him) lands and reuses orbital rockets. She also told him something like"look we disagree on Twitter, in a year we'll know better. If in a year Twitter fails, I won't say the world won against him or the risks he took were too big - I'll say I was wrong and he really was out of his depth. But if Twitter thrives will YOU say you were wrong and he knew what he was doing, or say you were right but got lucky with yet another company that succeeded despite his mistakes?" Guy went on to blast Elon. She told him he has Dunning Kruger written all over him, KNOWING that Elon is wrong and not wiling to ever change that. Right now it seems this and a few harsher things she wrote when he blasted me, lol, broke their friendship. I utterly respect her for that

[@colingenge9999]

@@ConnectingODots The story of the Twitter haters don’t even make sense. They claim he simply bought the company which was successful because of all of its engineers but its purchase occurred in 2004 and tesla didn’t turn a profit until 2017. Their first real car was the roadster in 2008 and then more less than 2012 but those facts don’t seem to have any import to the testa haters who steadfastly complain that he bought a functioning company and I guess just have to sit back and watch it happen. How is CEO for 18 years he turned the company from one that was severely in debt to being worth more than all the other car manufacturers combined is not a question that they answer. My concern here is the propensity with which people will believe conspiracy theories on the right and left that don’t make any rational sense but they allow people to hold an emotional view which an Elon‘s case is that they are being hard done by and he’s responsible for it in someway or another. I was initially suspect of Sam Harrises complaint that the work left is in many cases just as bad as the extreme right. The attacks on eons seem to bear this out which is disconcerting because it means that there are no rational actors on either side which only leaves the silent majority in the middle that are generally clueless. The other concern I have is that not one of them have ever challenged me on any of the facts that I have produced but simply immediately turn to a personal attack on me with name-calling and disparaging remarks. If Twitter Ken allow us to have more meaningful dialogue to any extent then Elon‘s contribution will be truly massive. He has been subject to a firehose of criticism probably from the moment that he declared that he wanted to provide an alternative to the Fossil Fuel Industry Who clearly don’t like that kind of talk and are particularly vociferous as he has become more successful. Main stream media seems to have missed the entire story here which is in my mind Elon is companies being the most advanced and progressive companies that have ever existed.

[@colingenge9999]

@@ConnectingODots according to Elon haters, his success is SpaceX was entirely funded by government subsidy which is ironic when you consider that SpaceX got 2.7 billion to produce a space launch vehicle for NASA where is all of the previous NASA scientist along with Boeing and Grumman got 4.7 billion and it had only one successful launch in low or the orbit where is I believe SpaceX has had over 30 in a row. Having had engineers that work for me in the past I can guarantee you that there’s no way that they work this out on their own without being seriously driven and challenged by an absurdly motivated Elon musk. Why America would shit on its most productive company and favorite employer is beyond me.

[@dewiz9596]

I know nothing about Scala. But I HAVE seen comparisons between Python and C. . . perhaps python may be easier to write, but C blows the doors off it in speed.

[@gazlives]

true i started in c before java, but most enterprise platforms don't need that kind of speed.

[@ConnectingODots]

True but development time and maintainability MUCH faster. Also lots of Python functions (and Numpy library's for example) actually written in C, so when you use them instead of writing your own, you actually get C speed. There are other ways to speed up Python as well.

[@aljohnson3717]

Unbelievably informative content, but unlike many others you bring MORALITY into discourse and for that I want to Thank you Sir!

[@randcontrols]

Thanks for the video - it's very informative.

[@degraham9198]

Wow. What a load of opportunity for the adepts.

[@danielch6662]

1) You don't need to burn the company down BEFORE rebuilding it. The most valuable company in the world today already proved this. Apple rewrote their entire codebase, more than once. They form a team, working separate from the rest of company keeping the old stuff running. The new team is small, agile, comprised of the most committed and best people, handpicked by leaders of the team. This keeps your income stream from your existing products from stalling while you're making Twitter 2.0. 2) most of Twitter's employees were not software engineers. They were sales and marketing people, who kept the advertisers happy, and kept the income coming in. Considering how much revenue Twitter was generating, and how big this part of Twitter was, they were extremely productive. It was crazy to fire them and caused half the top advertisers to leave. Yeah, they would come back. But in they months that they were away, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of revenue was lost. For no reason. Firing sales and marketing people so that your developers can recreate your entire codebase in python makes no sense whatsoever. You'd only have to hire them back, or hire other people and train them.

[@sdm6054]

An engineering adage is - "Fail early, Fail often" That's Musk in a nutshell.

[@ConnectingODots]

💯

[@willinguyen1]

yes, I think he said "if you are not failing, then you are not innovating fast enough"

[@danielstapler4315]

I wish Elon had held back from buying Twitter - I think he could of saved $20B. I do wonder whether he wanted to buy it before the November elections. If he hadn't put in his early bid the people in charge of Twitter would have had to try fix up their mess - and I would liked to see that.

[@karlasnyder645]

Ofcourse Elon is going to succeed saving Twitter.

[@ConnectingODots]

I believe so too. Video was made during peak-panic, when media all claimed there will be outages, employees are leaving etc. So far, very few problems and all I see are improvements

[@karlasnyder645]

I AM SO EXCITED

[@kingghidorah4191]

Nice lead in with Professor Hot Take 😂 I love it 👍🏻

[@ConnectingODots]

I wondered if someone would notice 😂

[@-COMMON-MAN]

Great job on thIs!!!

[@amazingtimeappforteenagers8734]

I LOVE your videos ... and I LOVE Elon ... until soon all the best

[@jabulaniharvey]

Twitter AI potential is massive

[@jaimefernandez3444]

Can't wait to watch

[@thomaschapple4749]

Always respected and defended Musk. You are right.. he has a plan.. I don't mind someone being Republican.. and I get the grudge against NYT and the Bidrn Admin.. but I don't get why promoting Hunters dick pics, making up things or nutty QAnon stuff fits in with "free speech" or Elons past record. You have to decide whether you want to be a player or a referee.. can't be both..

[@ConnectingODots]

I have no idea why people (mostly Dems) say he;s promoting Hunter;s dick pics. I guess that;s the framing MSM gives itmwhere in fact he didn't show them even once, didn't talk about them even once, only oncejoked that Hunter actually seems like a fun guy. What he DID show annd IS interested in is how free speech is handled by social media, how much parties, advertisers and possibly government lean on social media and dictate what will be shown and what will be banned. This isn't being a player, it's exposing the muck and cleansing the dirt so you get to play with real rules and no hidden referees fouling some players for nothing while allowing blatant fouls by others. Again "inerested in Hunter;s dick pics" is yucky but it's NOT ONE BIT what he's doing - just the yucky coverup that other bad players use to make people ignore the entire story. Wouldn't YOU want to know whether FBI interferes with freedom of speech? Maybe it doesn't, maybe it does, but uncovering everything will either clear the muck or somewhat shut those saying there is muck where there isn;t.

[@MJ-lx8pc]

There are always a few Debbie downers around. Over time they fade away.

[@StephenMortimer]

Thanks!

[@ConnectingODots]

Just noticed this now. Thanks, Stephen, I appreciate it! 🙏

[@etienneewankruger983]

Elon is doing exactly what is required to revitalise Twitter. He will succeed 100%.

[@sandybayes]

All anyone needs to do if there is a question about Elon's capabilities just check his past performance. I don't think there is any question about the success Twitter will have under Elon.

[@karlasnyder645]

I understand

[@DanielASchaeffer]

You really need to continue the agile series. You haven't addressed how agile manufacturing is done at Tesla.

[@dust921]

elon is like batman/ironman/700/all in 1 but hes still just a human & needs back up to fight the superpowered villains & wokers goons🤡

[@ConnectingODots]

I made an entire video about the guy whose pic you put at the end 😁 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXPUmWaNpr6ipJo

[@thelasttoknow]

It’s interesting how most people have never talk about or seen that clip where the old ceo said everything you post is saved on the site. Even if you delete or private messages.

[@michaelplotkin7383]

Another great job. Thank you.

[@mikaelbohman6694]

13:29: Jason Calacanis on a fifth of freshly trained employees being offered to leave. When I ran a business I found that one-fifth of all hires were a dud, regardless of whether we considered their resumé, education or used gut feeling. Interesting.

[@MrDuncanBooth]

Brilliant thank you

[@ashdri4105]

Please turn the generated closed caption on. I'm deaf.

[@ethanferrier9141]

Wow thanks for this breakdown!

[@thomasbrighton6159]

Great analysis!,

[@danielstapler4315]

I heard that in addition to the 7500 employees Twitter had 5500 contractors, does anyone know what percentage of the contractors were let go?

[@ConnectingODots]

No idea but it seems like just about everyone. Elon's companies are extremely vertically integrated, I don;t see him leaving important work to outsiders.

[@patrickstubner1712]

What programming languages would you choose, and for which tasks?

[@ConnectingODots]

TBH I'm no expert in this. Probably Python bc much shorter development time (AGILE 101), very readable (less documentation needed) and lots of engineers fluent in it. It IS slower than Scala for big data, but there are ways to make it fly.

[@DayneAbsil]

Well made

[@magsteel9891]

I'm not a Skala fan because it was never widely used and any benefits it ever had are built into Java already. But saying that writing new things in old languages is bad is just wrong.

[@magsteel9891]

In your anecdote about how you asked for a third guy on your team and you got someone who dragged you down for weeks, you proved you didn't need that third guy at all. Despite the delays you "handily met your deadline" with the two guys you had. Management learned not to believe you when you said you needed more resources.

[@NeuralSensei]

People dont realize where the AI takeover pattern ends: if you want to do something, AI will be your first try and if it can't do it people will have to do it.

[@idmhead0160]

Yeah, kind of like self driving when the car directs you at the highway median barrier and you have to hurry up and jerk the wheel to get back on the road

[@74ventura11]

Awesome, i really like your videos.