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> the trick is to get too big to fail status before gov't agencies can come shut you down.

While avoiding getting bought by Elon \o/

Why would you want to avoid that? Get paid the GDP of Lithuania for a fairly stodgy messaging platform with a big question mark over how many real users there even are and then getting to look like a genius in comparison to the next guy's run at it sounds like a great deal to me.

Haha yes, if you are at the top level! If you are just a normal employee getting paid 2-3x more than what you would get if you were working in most other companies, probably it's less fun to get bullied, then fired, and then to get a more decent salary for your work.

is that a concern anymore? he's so leveraged with the Twitter purchase, i doubt he could borrow enough money to buy a Tesla

That's probably a relief for many tech employees who won't get fired for no particular reason, then :D

You must have missed the many announcements of multiple thousands of layoffs happening at many big tech companies lately ;)

I like the "no particular reason" concept you have. It's absolutely not true, but I still like it. The company over staffed because it was trendy to do so. The company was not profitable. Seems like a pretty good particular reason to me.

How it was handled can be discussed as being good/bad/fair/unfair/whatevs, but the numbers didn't like on revenue, just on the user counts.

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