Inside Elon Musk’s first meeting with Twitter employees

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Keeping people in office so they don’t lose value.

Also Paypal and YouTube in Twitter.

Can we just use IRC again? At big scale?

It's only a bit over two years since Twitter said it would allow employees to work from home "permanently": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155647

I hope nobody made any major life changes to take advantage of that, since companies can change their policies any time they like, and "permanent" doesn't mean permanent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive_dismissal

“ So we want to have, you know, a reasonable percentage of humans. This is not for the sake of of money or anything like that. It’s just in order to do a lot of good…”

Sure.

> PayPal, as it’s known today, is a subset of a feature roadmap that we wrote in July of 2000. Roughly speaking, you want to basically populate a balance for every verified Twitter user. [...] We need money transfer licenses for that, which we’ve applied for.

> Then over time, [...] we will be the people’s financial institution.

More evidence that Elon Musk believes he is working toward turning Twitter into X (the "everything app").

He recently mentioned this in the big collection of subpoenaed IM conversations (IIRC).

It's rather obvious from the conversation that no one knows what Twitter is going to be... The only thing very clear is that he intends it to be a walled garden of many things way more than the open town square that was hinted at some point.

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