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hkpack 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The dead economy theory

> Before the AI craze, Musk chopped an awful lot of headcount at Twitter, right, and proved it was overkill, has that panned out?

He basically killed the Twitter as a business. The only lesson here is that it is really hard to fail having infinite money.

reverius42 3 months ago [–]

Killed? Twitter's AI/datacenter business is practically the only thing propping up SpaceX's valuation now, per their S-1 filing!

hkpack 3 months ago | [–]

Yes, that is a completely new business which has OpenAI, Anthropic and Google as competitors.

While Twitters competitors were Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest, Tumblr and Mastodon.

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