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All-In ft. Elon Musk: Inside the Twitter Turnaround

7 tactics for cutting waste, keeping control, and launching carefully, drawn from the Twitter turnaround.

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With Elon Musk

"More people making the food than eating the food." — Elon Musk
Elon Musk, on the episode

Past the free-speech retrospective and the Grokipedia demo is a practical run of lessons: how he found the waste inside Twitter, how he thinks about founder control, and why he keeps a human in the robotaxi even while taking heat for it.

Tactic 01

Elon Musk, All-In

Audit Recurring Spend Ruthlessly

The play

Review every subscription and per desk tool and cut unused spend immediately.

Elon Musk says

There was a list of SAS software they went through and none of it was being used. Some of it had never even been installed despite being paid for two years. They were paying a certain amount of money per desk for desking software in an office where nobody came to work. Effectively lunch was four hundred dollars.

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List every recurring subscription and per-seat tool this week and cancel any with no active usage.

Tactic 02

Hold Control Proportional To Responsibility, With A Kill Switch

Elon Musk says

He wants something like a 25% vote. Enough of a vote to have strong influence but not so much that he cannot…

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Tactic 03

Stay Paranoid On High-Stakes Launches

Tactic 04

Win By Being Clearly Better, Then Let Users Carry It

Tactic 05

Refactor Carefully: One Bug Was Covering For Another

Tactic 06

Have A Clear, Defensible Rule Instead Of Ad Hoc Calls

Tactic 07

Make The Feedback Loop One Tap Away

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