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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[-] MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Every great genius inventor and businessman can be a little eccentric. Remember that before you decide to call them mean names like "abuser", "megalomaniac" etc. It's actually quirky and endearing once you factor in that he's a genius inventor and businessman (I'm also one of the misunderstood people in the same category).

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love this. I'm a former IT engineer/CTO turned renegade entrepreneur, so this story tickles both of my feet.

Yeah, any reasonable person would know this idea to move the servers without a plan was ridiculous.

Yet as a roll-up-the-sleeves entrepreneur your entire job is to fucking destroy the red tape that is put up in front of you constantly. Or else you and everyone who works for you is out of a job. Of course there will be problems, but that's why you have smart people who can sort it out afterwards faster than they can preplan for it.

And a lot of really smart people make "doing it the right way" a religion, so when the cash is going to run out shortly, well, sometimes the big guy needs to just roll the dice.

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