Analysis of elon musk’s strategy for X

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    Probably would’ve made sense not to kill his user base before trying to build a product that requires a large user base to be useful.

    • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      That’s just what a small mind would think. Of course business genius knows better. What better way to build a globally respected brand than to turn your platform into a far right cesspool.

    • roguetrick@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Would’ve been fine if he was doing that while riding high off of VC funding. You can try to pivot to new features that way. He’s riding on bank debt that needs to be serviced, however. That means he needs to be both profitable and somehow develop a service that will capture market share. It’s not going to happen.

      • Num10ck@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        he’ll force you to use the X app to hail a robo ride via subscription and manage your insurance risk modifier score and instruct your slavebots and throttle your electric VLF air conditioning and whatever