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He's going find it's tough growing a company without a constant flow of government contracts and subsidies.



You mean like he did with Zip2 at over $300 million, and X.com at over $1.5 billion? As far as I know Starlink isn't getting subsidies either. Tell us about your experience at growing companies - do you know something about this that Elon doesn't?


Hi Jason.


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Biz constraints on Twitter don’t really matter to Elon. I take him at his word that be bought Twitter for ideological reasons.


I'm pretty sure every MBA ever is laughing at the implicit assumptions in the article and these comments. It might not be pretty but there are other ways than growth to make a company more profitable/valuable...


I'm not sure if Musk's goal is to make Twitter profitable or to make some sort of ideological point.


Absolutely. I’m talking specifically about Elon Musk. He only knows how to run gov funded organizations. Just like his buddy Thiel and Palantir.




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