I think I’m the only person who doesn’t and never used Twitter. I can’t stand what social media has done to people. It’s truly the downfall of decency and empathy.
Same, I’ve never been a twitter person, I sent one tweet when the app first started and never went back. I don’t see what the big deal is but I like Elon, he’s so gutsy and takes no guff. Maybe he’ll make it better but either way, I’ll never venture there.
I came to say exactly that!! OMG I love his witty sense of humor, and he does it with such a grace and so casually he cracks me up all the time!! That is an art!!!
@@thestraydog when you're a shallow person who needs to constantly have people talk about them, yeah, it's the most important thing. When you have nothing to offer but money...which obviously isn't enough because he doesn't have a stable personal relationship with pretty much anyone. And don't bring up his mom, they got issues.
And that a degree doesn't mean intelligence. Or that being born with a silver spoon so that you can take risky business ventures doesn't mean that someone is a good businessman 😒
@@eadweard. Way to over-complicate a simple concept. For example: Ben Carson. Brilliant and genius brain surgeon. Borderline mentally challenged as Secretary of HUD.
It’s pretty funny how many people are going hard on the Twitter pranks. Like the Eli Lilly fake account that posted about “free insulin” and it actually made the company’s stock tank for the day. It’s crazy how much social media can influence the real world.
In fact, those who fell for the " free insulin " prank are typical of far too many utilizing " social media " for all the wrong reasons. I'm reminded of the adage, " If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is ".
The name SolarCity gave me flashbacks. During my childhood my mom signed a contract with SolarCity that was pitched as something which would help our community - a growing Texas city experiencing rolling blackouts as a result of an increasing population. My mom, self-admittingly not knowledgeable about contracts, entered into a 5 year agreement to install solar panels on our house. My mom believed the contract was under the city, as that's what the salesperson implied. The idea was that we would generate electricity for our own house as well as for a grid which would go back to households or businesses in the city. If my mom violated the contract she would be legally obligated to purchase the solar panels for tens of thousands of dollars (This she did not find out until getting into contact with a lawyer who reviewed the contract after it was signed). A "city" program, SolarCity was supposed to help lower our electric bill, as we were generating our own electricity. In reality we essentially had to purchase back our electricity, as well as rent the solar panels. Our electric bills were $500+ and I remember my mom crying during summers because of the cost. With a single mother as the head of our household that could have easily sunk our family and we did almost lose our house. It was also much more difficult to sell our house when the time came, as a buyer would be required either to enter the same contract, or purchase the solar panels. I mention this story here because no news centers at the time would publish my mom's story. We also found out the company was under investigation by the Better Business Bureau, though I have a hard time finding those details today in a Google search. I don't remember a lot of details, but I do vividly remember the day the salesperson pitched the program, promising a lowered electric bill through a city program which could help our community and ourselves. And the tears, instability, and cursing of Elon Musk which came afterwards. For those interested my mom had to pay off the contract for over $20,000. The $20,000 was paid from the profit my mom earned in selling the house. No one would purchase the house with the contract and it was very difficult to sell even with just the panels. Part of the reason my mom sold my childhood home was to exit the contract.
How horrible! 😱 How can anybody sleep sound at night with such a business model. It gives me the creeps when people admire Musk like some divine being...when in reality he's working on his goals with cruelty and bullying/buying his way out of trouble and media coverage. Some people don't care about the evil, as long as there's some success they care about. Like admiring Hitler for (allegedly) creating the Autobahn.
That’s what your mum gets for making decisions based on “saving the environment” rather than providing for the family🤷🏻♂️ Several of my neighbors bought & financed a solar system that has payments right around the amount of $ their power bill was b/c they were “saving the environment” and the savings from the power bill would pay the payments, It’s turned out that the solar system is completely useless and they’re struggling to make the payments on what is effective a pile of scrap… I just find it difficult to feel sorry for people who try to save the environment when they’re not even able to properly care for their children lol
@@205ken4 Assuming you're here for conversation rather than self indulgent prodding, my mom is sometimes naively focused on environmental actions that have been arguably not beneficial. Who's to say that doesn't represent a good majority of the developed world that's consumed propaganda about what's "good for the planet" manufactured by the same companies destroying it. You shouldn't always believe everything you're told. That being said, my mom thought she would be helping our community (rolling blackouts during record high temperatures in Texas are not fun) and lowering our electric bill, rather than more than doubling it. Two things I'd view as more than sufficient in attempting to "properly care for" her children. The company did throw out estimates for what the electric bill would look like after installation of our solar panels and as an underdeveloped eye witness I do remember that bit. But I guess you don't have to always be true to your word when you're a company unconcerned with the ethics of lying. Before you say it, yes, I'm a person with nothing better to do than share a story.
Even if Twitter crashes and burns it would be a contribution to society. It has developed into a win win situation, full of internet drama and childish stupidity, and I'm happily watching and laughing with my popcorn at hand from the sidelines.
@@elsebethlind1076 -- I got sick of looking at and listening to that narcissistic 8 year old child on a daily basis when he was POTUS. Now I'm hoping that criminal will be sent to prison for his treasonous crimes and we will never have to hear or see him again. Amen.
He pumps out a lot of videos so only so much time can be spent on each one. What I can't stand is getting a preroll ad and then FIVE OTHER AD BREAKS in just a 14 minute video. 2 ads each, that is 12 ads in 14 minutes of content!!
Doc Grande, I believe Elon is right when he stated (6:40), "AI poses the greatest existential threat to humanity," and believes that AI "has the power to change the world for good." Couldn't both be true depending on who is in control?
Anyone who understands AI, would agree with that statement. It's so obvious after reading even a single book about the subject. AGI will be the most important invention mankind will produce, as well as our last and final one. This is not really up for debate, i'm always floored how people don't get this. There is only a single future in the horizon, an artificial super intelligence that will doom the planet and the Hubble volume OR solve every problem humanity will ever face.
Every bit of tech including computers and AI originate from the human brain, an even more complex computer. If we’ve thought about the possibility of them taking over, it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a reality. So that I do agree with him about.
The proposition of self-recursive general AI is exactly that the AI is in control. Think of it as a robot that writes its own code to control itself and thereby control its own evolution. Now imagine taking a look at this planet from a perspective of an alien lifeform and asking the question - "What organism on this beautiful planet is the most destructive and should therefore be up for extermination to serve the greater good of the planet?"
It's dumb how you see all of a sudden millionaire musicians and singers saying they are leaving twitter and regular people thinking they are sticking it to "the man." I feel like i'm taking crazy pills.
In my opinion, it's unscientific to write twitter off as a failure this early. It's reasonable to hypothesize that twitter will fail, but no evidence has been presented that Elon Musk has failed to achieve whatever goals he set out to do.
@@Bonesph I've been reliably informed that building a website is actually far harder than entering the global automobile market, building a space program, or indeed than building a website that provides financial transaction services. So I think you have made an excellent prediction here. You're a bit behind everyone else, though. Check twitter for latest information on whether twitter is still working. 😆
I guess I’m an Elon fan. Twitter employees had free wine and beer and, IIRC, Twitter spent hundreds of dollars per person for lunch. The business wasn’t optimized. It’s a job not an adult daycare. I’m sure he got rid of the fluff and kept most of the engineers and whatever else was required to run the business. I don’t see anything wrong with that. But, then I’ve been in Silicon Valley for decades and have seen the waste. Employees should be doing work 90% of the time. I don’t think that it too much to ask, especially considering our compensation.
People need to stop liking elon and trump because. “Transparency”. They are about as transparent as a brick wall. They are loud and bold people, but behind the scenes they pretend to be self made and charismatic when in reality they were handed an easy mode to the game that is life. They will never be like someone like me or you. They will always be people who can get tax exemptions for donating to charities of shell companies they already own, getting away with massive crimes and taking money from the poorest members of society with no return. Dude straight up laid off 50% of Twitter staff then had to beg them to comeback after the site becomes unstable. It’s absolutely crazy how someone who makes 10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10, what you make but still be absolutely worthless. Do not let this guys trick you into thinking they are transparent or smart.
I don't understand the reasoning of this commnet. Who's supposed to own multi-billion industries then? Average blue collar Joe's? These platforms are not charities.
I don’t understand the take here, Dr. Grande both making fun of Elon for being concerned about AI and then making fun of those who think Elon’s concerns are overblown. Sometimes the derision on this channel lands as harsh for no good reason, not connected to calling out harmful actions.
Hello Dr. Grande, I have read a bit about this subject and I am very glad you are analyzing it for us. I agree very much that the takeover demonstrates the danger of grandiose narcissism and lack of insight. You analyzed him well, he thinks he knows it all but never questions his own decisions and he brought as you said " his own brand of pomposity". Thank you for your hard work. Best Regards.
Well, a diagnosis of "narcissism" would require that Musk is impliedly projecting a False Self--i.e. a false image of himself as a highly-successful businessperson capable of accomplishing almost anything he sets his mind to in the business sphere, even if his methods are idiosyncratic, incomprehensible, and seem illogical and ad hoc to us mere mortals. But, that's not a false self in Musk's case. An incredibly successful businessperson with virtually unlimited potential business-wise is Musk's TRUE self. JFC he is literally the richest person in the world, barring possibly some oil sultans, and the vast majority of his wealth having been acquired from his entrepreneurial acumen in multiple fields over multiple decades. "Grandiosity," a key component of narcissism, requires a delusionally over-inflated and unearned self-regard. The world's richest person who has succeeded time and again in many high stakes business ventures, thinking he can somehow do it again in social media, may turn out to be wrong, as all high risk business ventures have a risk of failure. But does not imply a delusional level of grandiosity. (An analogy might be if 7-time Superbowl champ Tom Brady went to a new team that was in disarray and not very good, believing he could turn it into a Superbowl champion. That would not be evidence of delusional grandiosity. Because he has the actual ability to do it, although never any guarantees.) I think Dr. Grande is starting to play just a little too much to the progressive peanut gallery with some of these videos, perhaps reflecting the psychologist's own unconscious cognitive biases.
I'm no big fan of Musk, but the guy constantly questions his own decisions and backtracks or completely 180s (publicly) if he's given information that contradicts his original decision. He wouldn't have got to where he is today if he only listened to himself.
Hopefully people start to calm down and understand that they can't demand group think. People will rebel if they are being told they can't think for themselves. Something really did need to change with the 1984 ish stuff.
Dr. Grande "if it wasn't for cancel culture, America wouldn't have any culture at all. In fact, the only thing that should be canceled is cancel culture." Cyborg Grande "what about New Jersey?" Dr. Grande "cancel it."
I'm not a psychologist or a specialist in this topic. I don't understand why you think that Elon is motivated by anger. I think that he fired this many people purely for logical reasons and for the goal of saving Twitter.
How do you distinguish between the person and what the media says about. Especially if the media owners have their own intentions. Comments about popular people, especially rich popular, should probably be taken with a few more grains of salt.
I know change is hard sometimes and I like the led lights, but I miss the brick wall!!! I do really appreciate all the hard work you do, to teach and entertain us- I wonder if that 44 billion dollars was the single largest purchase ever made… thanks Dr. Grande!😊
Did I actually see a screen shot of a tweet from EM’s account asking “if there was anyone in the building who knew how to write code to please report to the 10th floor immediately”??? True or not…it’s pretty hilarious!!!
He asked coders to show up at the 10th floor with proof of work they had done in the last six months. He has access to all of this data already and most likely knew exactly how many of his staff had not written any code in that time period before making the announcement. And yes, it is hilarious.
13:04-13:09 „Clients that hear to Kamala Harris thoughts and believe she is forming cohesive thoughts”..😂❤so much on the spot! Thanks again for this analysis!
My view is that a final judgement on Twitter/Musk is premature, however, it was clear that the entire Twitter organization required a meat cleaver as opposed to a scalpel to derail the impossible culture that had evolved there. Really, I don't care whether or not Twitter prospers and I hope that it acquires a handful of competitors but with freedom of speech (with some limitations to control illegal/immoral acts and/or recruiting) at the core.
I adore this Man. Very smart and bright. Yes if I was him, I fire all those lazy workers. I totally agree with Elon. Now pandemic is no longer exist, come back to the office. I worked remotely during the pandemic. Most coworkers neglected the job thinking no one knows what they doing, and that the reason most businesses production went horribly down. I like the way he handles the business, that's why he's not only wealthy but the most ingenious Man in the he planet. Fire all and replace with people who are willing to seriously working.
The bias is glaringly clear with this video. I’m not even really a fan of Elon, but this is certainly the tell tale story of Dr. Grande’s world view, and agenda.
I fail to understand the worship around Elon, same as I'd say the cult like worship of Steve Jobs. I think partly we have media to blame, for making celebrities out of CEO's. I recall being taught about James E. Burke in my Economics class - I didn't know who he was, or his contribution to Johnson & Johnson during a time of crisis for the company; but I do wish if we were to celebrate people, I wish people like James E. Burke would receive more attention than people like Elon and Elizabeth Holmes. Sadly, the nature of human kind is - we're drawn to notorious individuals. Thank you for your analysis, Dr. Grande.
@@flain283 so many people have to go to extremes nowadays (I’m feeling old!). His supporters won’t hear a bad word against him, and his ‘haters’ can’t acknowledge his successes. Life is so much more complex. It’s interesting to watch people entrench themselves into their position
@@THE-id1by i haven't met a worshipper and i mainly just read the news, so it seems to me that the hate exceeds it - what do you think? If you are seeing the worshipping what news are you seeing it on?
It doesn't matter whether he's bias or not, we all are. The only difference here is he biased against free speech or for free speech. It is not our place to tell others what they can or cannot say. We can only control what we say and do not other people and it's best for people to learn if you don't like something someone says you can leave or walk away. You don't have to stand there and take it you can go home. But for some reason people have chosen confrontation which tends to make everything worse if it's for the wrong reasons.
I heard that a lot of the Twitter employees didn't work very hard. They would spend their days watching television, playing games, doing yoga, and so on. They needed change, but maybe Elon is not the one they need.
Some of the remaining employees are only allowed to stay in the United States with the understanding that they remain employed. This means Elon can work them to death with threat of deportation if they question him and get fired for their trouble.
@@XYZ-kb3mm I don't agree with making them work 80 hours a week, but I also don't believe the workplace is the place for recreation. I also realize that he might not be the best person to work for, but I also appreciate the fact that he's restored free speech to Twitter.
@@XYZ-kb3mm Many people disagree with you. I believe hard work is healthy for your brain chemistry. It staves off mental illness and improves people with mental health problems. Hard work can be done with a positive and healthy attitude and contributes to meaning and purpose in life as well as positive neurotransmitters being released consistently due to completing tasks and being/feeling useful. Furthermore, many people believe that being useful and working hard is morally necessary.
@@kalikeleka she was articulate: when she was either putting pot heads in jail or reading from a script someone else wrote. She's a one trick pony, maybe 2.
Dr. Grande As a mother of an ex twitter employee that was hired by the diversion dept. (my son although has a master degree in mathematics, also has Asperger syndrome, and worked from home ) thank you so much for the empathy. Not all twitter employees had high salaries, and still dont understand how and why my son was laid off. It seems like Musk put names in a bowl and fired whatever name he picked out!!! Again after seen so much hate for the ex employees thank you for your empathy
It’s a shame to leave out his firsthand experience of living in a state that denies freedom to a race of people. Also it’s silly to hear all these verdicts on his handling of Twitter when he’s owned it for what, a month now? Twitter had a heavy excess of labor and bots. Those two issues there are very significant in turning a company around.
I love how all these people who’ve never run a business know better how to run a business than a man whose built multiple businesses worth more than 1 billion dollars.
I love how people excuse his absolutely idiotic actions, and instead of justifying why they actions made sense they instead point to his net worth and think that somehow makes a stupid decision good.
@@JohnSmith-fz1ih I love how people make spectacular predictions, and instead of noticing how badly their predictions have turned out they point to his net worth and think that somehow makes a good decision stupid 😛
@@markbrown7662 I gather that was an attempted snipe at me, but I’m not sure what you’re referring to because I didn’t make any predictions. I also didn’t say his decisions were bad because he’s a billionaire. I said his decisions were bad, and him being a billionaire doesn’t somehow make them good. I’m literally saying his net worth isn’t relevant to whether his decisions are good or bad, and you seem to have interpreted that as me saying his decisions are bad because he’s a billionaire. Colour me confused if that’s how you interpreted my comments.
@@JohnSmith-fz1ih Sorry, not intended. I meant "people" in the same way you did - to refer to people who had entered the debate - and the observations weren't meant to contradict yours. I agree net worth is irrelevant. I just think the two groups of people may be cancelling each other out in the debate 😁
That video had some of your best one liners. Thanks for helping me start my Sunday with a few good laughs 😂. The video was informative. I’m always up for a dose of your objectivity
In my opinion social media has a ridiculous importance in people's life. Looks like people takes far too seriously what others post, as if we never speak nosense in our daily life. Now it's written on the internet, and given 3000x more importance as the comment really has.
If you follow toxic people, that’s what happens. That is not my case at all. I love Twitter, and it didn’t get worse. To me and many others, it got better because it allows freedom of speech, and there are more features. Re-subscribe Patricia. You will love it now. What a terrible biased analysis by Dr.Todd, by the way, which is usually unbiased and on point
A lot of MBA courses advocate the "gradual change" style of managerial change over, involving communicating with staff about problems in the company, and how the new management team are going to solve them. As the management consultant Peter Drucker once said "Culture eats strategy." and I think we're going to see a lot of this at Twitter over the next few months.
I think Elon Musk has gone into Twitter with a lot of assumptions about why they do certain things. They ban hate speech? Must be ideologically motivated.. I'm going to allow any speech... but then advertisers back away, most likely because they don't want their advertisements next to hate speech.. again, Elon Musk assumes their motivation - these advertisers must be ideologically motivated.. time and time again Elon Musk just imagines why people are doing something, and makes decisions based on those assumptions, and when things don't go his way he seems to imagine another reason why people are behaving certain ways. At the end of the day, advertisers want to make money. Social media makes a lot of money, but requires some regulation to make the most amount if money. If people are assuming every regulation has some hidden agenda or secret ideology, I just don't think that's reasonable, but that seems to be exactly what Elon Musk thought was happening when he went in, guns blazing trying to fight some perceived enemy
@@trybunt I can't understand how someone as intelligent and business savvy as Elon Musk didn't realise that trying to destroy a corprorate culture then rebuild in the image of what he thinks it should be would not cause a backlash among his workers.
@@JFDA5458 To me, it’s because Elon is a technical thinker who doesn’t appreciate the grey areas because it’s inefficient and requires too much patience plus doesn’t align with his privileged perspective. Simply put - he doesn’t care. That’s why Tesla cars lack fit and finish to the point where a basic car wash will leak water into the interior of the car.
@@trybunt I think the problem is that some people, like yourself, assume things like "Elon is going to allow hate speech." First of all, hate speech is a completely nebulous and subjective term that can mean different things to different people. Second of all, Elon prioritizes free speech, within the bounds of the law. Why has the culture shifted on this issue so far as to be authoritarian? Why is everyone so threatened by what people might have to say? Thirdly, Elon actually hasn't even changed the Twitter guidelines on speech. The problem at Twitter was that you had activists, colluding with and pressuring private companies, and even governments, to silence voices they are ideologically opposed to. It seems to me that Elon bought a failing company, that was full of bloat. With employees basically doing nothing, and bragging about it on social media. I think Elon is going to try and turn this company into one that can possibly make some money. And if "private companies" are so keen on dictating what people can say, I say it's high time for those companies to fuck off. I don't care if it's the government trying to silence people, or private companies, at the end of the day, it's a violation.
I love your videos Dr. Grande, but I have to disagree with you on this one. He is not throwing a tantrum when he fired people. He fired them because he realized it was an enormous waste of manpower to have that many people working for a company that does what Twitter does. He saw that the website could run with far fewer people than are currently employed. That’s actually a smart business move.
I 100% agree Rejane. Musk see's things as black and white. Which is great for Tesla and SpaceX. However, Twitter is full of dealing with subtleties and grey areas.
This is why our generation needs another Christine Chubbuck. Instead of "blood and guts" news on TV, we're now obsessed over biased news on social media.
You had me in stitches. When he started appearing in headlines, started commenting on culture and politics, I figured he wasn't really a businessman, but a narcissist. I wouldn't be surprised if his businesses all tank, starting first with Twitter. He's taken his eye off them and that's usually the beginning of the end.
To be fair: one can absolutely be both a businessman and a narcissist. The problem with Elon Musk, however, is rather the endless power he has through his money than his personality; which in turn is probably corrupted by his riches.
@@alexanderfo3886 Yes, you are right. An entrepenuer like Musk will almost surely have an overabundance of self-confidence. But, self-confidence is one thing, megalomania is something else. Remains to be seen if he will rein in his current impulses and focus on his businesses.
While I totally agree with Dr. Grande's personality analysis of Elon Musk, my gut instinct is that this is a classic example of a cigar being just a cigar. I think in the next year we're gonna start learning a lot about social media companies...mainly that a lot of them are bloated overstaffed operations with extremely low productivity, but their profitability has been so incredibly high that they could operate this way for a long time. Now that's starting to change, and Twitter is the first (and highest profile) to get an old fashioned house cleaning, with many others to follow.
Twitter wasn't a profitable company. Considering how many moving parts it has inside it the number of people it wasn't really bloated with staff. The way that Elon is going Twitter is heading for an outage that will last days, if not weeks, when something really breaks or they get attacked by a hacker or bot network and don't have the staff to diagnose and fix the damage done by the attack.
yeah it looks good for these companies to have huge glamorous campuses with tons of employees, whether they need them or not. Mine's bigger than yours!
@@Nightdreaux22647 It's all in how it's done. Meta is laying off employees in a seemingly structured way. Musk is announcing at 4PM on a Friday that anybody that doesn't report back to work by 7PM that night is fired. Big difference in little dick energy there.
You seem confused about several factors, one of the main ones being profitability of social media companies. In this case, from a recent analysis, coinciding with all other financials from past years: 'As of 2022, Twitter is not profitable. In fact, in 2021, on $5 billion in revenues, Twitter generated over $220 million in net losses. In Q2 2022, on $1.17 billion in revenues, Twitter posted a net loss of $270 million. However, in the first six months of 2022, on almost $2.4 billion in revenues, Twitter generated over $240 million in net income.' Musk made a rookie mistake, his ego failed to allow him to accept ALL the expert advice that his slash and burn tactics at Twitter can only result in massive failure and it has unfolded exactly as he was told it would, but chose to ignore.
I was not a fan of the old Twitter, and it sounds like I'm not going to be a fan of the new one, either. I certainly feel for the rank and file employees at the company who were only doing their jobs. Thanks for what you do, Dr. Grande. I'm always impressed by your insights.
Most of them were getting full pay while working very little. Project Verita’s has a video showing an employee saying engineers work 4 hours w eeek. They had the good life and it’s done now. Welcome to the real world of WORKING. You know, where you actually work 😂
His fans are what annoy me. It's not like he's the only innovator in the world or even that smart. It's just most physicists, chemists, and programmers have no desire to have 11.5 million likes on the Twitter machine
If misinformation in this video was a drinking game, we would have had to make a beer run. Like EM, or hate him, you can't deny his success. I doubt this video will age well.
It's only a matter of time before Elon is doing Dos Equis commercials. He's the richest, the most successful, the most interesting man of our time. I say this as a person who, ironically, doesn't drive a Tesla, has never flown into space on a rocket, doesn't have StarLink, and does not have a Twitter account.
I'm a fan of your CZcams channel, analyzes, and humor. However, I hope you're wrong on this one. Elon musk has done much good and I believe his intent with Twitter is very positively motivated. I hope he proves all the naysayers wrong and is able to have great success with Twitter. That being said, I also believe most social media is somewhere between fetid sewage and being an open cesspool. So, Elon has his work cut out for him this time!
Few things; You should have mentioned why he left South-Africa; He and Kimbal, his brother didn't want to support the apartheid government and go to the mandatory military service. The claim that Errol (his father) owned half of an emerald mine was made by him and no one has ever produced any proof of this. Nevertheless the fact that he left South-Africa with his brother without any financial help from his family and then got into student loan debt and then created Zip2 (you misnamed the company btw) and made their fortune is also something you should have mentioned. He is self-made and this is important because there are so many people who desperately want to claim otherwise, hence the emerald mine claim circulating in the internet.
The concern with AI is that the algorithms that run them are opaque to the general public. A lot of effort goes into trying to remove bias from machine learning as it can appear unintentionally. I doubt Elan fears that robots will take over and instead fears that mundane people and their political handlers will point towards AI output as "fact" or the "best possible answer" when it isn't, or assuming that the algorithm is fair. Anyways, I know you were joking, just thought I'd clarify because it's going to be a hot issue in about 10-20 years. Love your vids!
People are so obsessed with Elon being evil. Twitter is toxic for sure but I understand the importance of free speech. I don’t support hate speech but it is nice that peoples ignorance has a place to broadcast if only to expose them for what they are.
As long as he doesn't ban and censor people, he's kept his word. With a few exceptions, like doxing or pretending to be other people like Ethan Klein did.
@@PrettyFLY4aWiFi. omg as a conservative these unnecessary statements are what make the political system so polarized. I hope you’re at least successful…. I’m sorry your comment just reminded me of a fellow I met who literally was a bum but just wants to take a stance .
It's crazy how fast your channel grew, dude. I'm happy for you, just always a strange thing to see. One day you can write a comment and probably have it be read to a creator and possibly responded to, a week later you mine as well be writing the president via message in bottle lobbed into the sea.
An accurate historical analysis of the madness that is grandiose greed on a level we've never seen before. $190 BILLION and he still wants to charge users for a service that was free.
@@saxglend9439 In 18 years Tesla only made a profit for one year. He got rich of fanboys like you investing in his stuff no matter what. That and the negative nominal rates he got from the fed, and the money he got from the taxpayers. But I know, I'm the imbecile ey, you are the smart one. Just buy Tesla en Twitter stock then if u think he's so great.
Dr Grande, I think a super fun one would be if you could almost try to distill Twitter users into 1 person and then "speculate on what might be going on"
I think I’m the only person who doesn’t and never used Twitter. I can’t stand what social media has done to people. It’s truly the downfall of decency and empathy.
Same, I’ve never been a twitter person, I sent one tweet when the app first started and never went back. I don’t see what the big deal is but I like Elon, he’s so gutsy and takes no guff. Maybe he’ll make it better but either way, I’ll never venture there.
For some of us who are marginalized, social media can be the only places where we can find decency and empathy from others.
Same for me...but now I'm about to give it a try :)
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You're not the only person who never used Twitter. Never seemed worth it.
I don't understand how a psychologist with one of the calmest speaking voices is putting out the best one liners. Thanks for the laughs, Dr Grande.
haha right! he just slips them in there
Some of us are very familiar with this style of passive-aggressive sarcasm ...
@@slantos2668 Congratulations.
I came to say exactly that!! OMG I love his witty sense of humor, and he does it with such a grace and so casually he cracks me up all the time!! That is an art!!!
It's scripted.
This is why it is so important to have real friends. A true friend will be the first to remind you of facts and not tell you what you LIKE to hear.
This is an important truth and people who are narcissistic never want to hear criticism even if it is helpful.
Are you "cucking" yourself?! Please, make an appt. with the venerable Dr. Grande asap (j/k, clever handle btw)
And hold you back from earning the highest net worth in the world
@@joshdennison5777 Because that's what's most important in life 😒
@@thestraydog when you're a shallow person who needs to constantly have people talk about them, yeah, it's the most important thing. When you have nothing to offer but money...which obviously isn't enough because he doesn't have a stable personal relationship with pretty much anyone. And don't bring up his mom, they got issues.
I’m still amazed at how many people fail to understand that intelligence in one area does not equate to intelligence in all areas.
Some people are super intelligent.
And that a degree doesn't mean intelligence. Or that being born with a silver spoon so that you can take risky business ventures doesn't mean that someone is a good businessman 😒
It does actually, depending on what you mean by "areas".
@@eadweard. Way to over-complicate a simple concept. For example: Ben Carson. Brilliant and genius brain surgeon. Borderline mentally challenged as Secretary of HUD.
Elon doesn’t get that he’s not intelligent in all areas because he thinks he’s a god and he looks down on commoners like us with contempt.
It’s pretty funny how many people are going hard on the Twitter pranks. Like the Eli Lilly fake account that posted about “free insulin” and it actually made the company’s stock tank for the day. It’s crazy how much social media can influence the real world.
Elon believes in free speech except when people speak about Elon.
it's pretty lame how so many of these people are straight up wasting time.
Crazy scary
In fact, those who fell for the " free insulin " prank are typical of far too many utilizing " social media " for all the wrong reasons. I'm reminded of the adage, " If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is ".
Kinda like Musk promoting crypto hey.
The name SolarCity gave me flashbacks. During my childhood my mom signed a contract with SolarCity that was pitched as something which would help our community - a growing Texas city experiencing rolling blackouts as a result of an increasing population. My mom, self-admittingly not knowledgeable about contracts, entered into a 5 year agreement to install solar panels on our house. My mom believed the contract was under the city, as that's what the salesperson implied. The idea was that we would generate electricity for our own house as well as for a grid which would go back to households or businesses in the city. If my mom violated the contract she would be legally obligated to purchase the solar panels for tens of thousands of dollars (This she did not find out until getting into contact with a lawyer who reviewed the contract after it was signed). A "city" program, SolarCity was supposed to help lower our electric bill, as we were generating our own electricity. In reality we essentially had to purchase back our electricity, as well as rent the solar panels. Our electric bills were $500+ and I remember my mom crying during summers because of the cost. With a single mother as the head of our household that could have easily sunk our family and we did almost lose our house. It was also much more difficult to sell our house when the time came, as a buyer would be required either to enter the same contract, or purchase the solar panels. I mention this story here because no news centers at the time would publish my mom's story. We also found out the company was under investigation by the Better Business Bureau, though I have a hard time finding those details today in a Google search. I don't remember a lot of details, but I do vividly remember the day the salesperson pitched the program, promising a lowered electric bill through a city program which could help our community and ourselves. And the tears, instability, and cursing of Elon Musk which came afterwards.
For those interested my mom had to pay off the contract for over $20,000. The $20,000 was paid from the profit my mom earned in selling the house. No one would purchase the house with the contract and it was very difficult to sell even with just the panels. Part of the reason my mom sold my childhood home was to exit the contract.
@@TakenTook Thank you for the sympathy and compassion. It's more than Elon is capable of 🥲
This is quite a cautionary tale of snake oil sales people talking with forked tongues. TY for sharing.⚠️🐍
How horrible! 😱 How can anybody sleep sound at night with such a business model. It gives me the creeps when people admire Musk like some divine being...when in reality he's working on his goals with cruelty and bullying/buying his way out of trouble and media coverage. Some people don't care about the evil, as long as there's some success they care about. Like admiring Hitler for (allegedly) creating the Autobahn.
That’s what your mum gets for making decisions based on “saving the environment” rather than providing for the family🤷🏻♂️
Several of my neighbors bought & financed a solar system that has payments right around the amount of $ their power bill was b/c they were “saving the environment” and the savings from the power bill would pay the payments,
It’s turned out that the solar system is completely useless and they’re struggling to make the payments on what is effective a pile of scrap…
I just find it difficult to feel sorry for people who try to save the environment when they’re not even able to properly care for their children lol
@@205ken4 Assuming you're here for conversation rather than self indulgent prodding, my mom is sometimes naively focused on environmental actions that have been arguably not beneficial. Who's to say that doesn't represent a good majority of the developed world that's consumed propaganda about what's "good for the planet" manufactured by the same companies destroying it. You shouldn't always believe everything you're told. That being said, my mom thought she would be helping our community (rolling blackouts during record high temperatures in Texas are not fun) and lowering our electric bill, rather than more than doubling it. Two things I'd view as more than sufficient in attempting to "properly care for" her children. The company did throw out estimates for what the electric bill would look like after installation of our solar panels and as an underdeveloped eye witness I do remember that bit. But I guess you don't have to always be true to your word when you're a company unconcerned with the ethics of lying. Before you say it, yes, I'm a person with nothing better to do than share a story.
Thank you Dr. Grande! I always enjoy your take on what is happening in the world! I appreciate you!
Even if Twitter crashes and burns it would be a contribution to society. It has developed into a win win situation, full of internet drama and childish stupidity, and I'm happily watching and laughing with my popcorn at hand from the sidelines.
The more deeply one falls in love with oneself, the more insufferable one becomes.
The Greek Narcissus!
Yes, look at Trump!
100%
@@elsebethlind1076 -- I got sick of looking at and listening to that narcissistic 8 year old child on a daily basis when he was POTUS. Now I'm hoping that criminal will be sent to prison for his treasonous crimes and we will never have to hear or see him again. Amen.
Can we just appreciate the amount of effort that goes into his videos?
Ah! But you are here! 🤔😎👽
He 's beginning to show his bias.
He's the best
He pumps out a lot of videos so only so much time can be spent on each one. What I can't stand is getting a preroll ad and then FIVE OTHER AD BREAKS in just a 14 minute video. 2 ads each, that is 12 ads in 14 minutes of content!!
We appreciate it that's why we're watching
Doc Grande, I believe Elon is right when he stated (6:40), "AI poses the greatest existential threat to humanity," and believes that AI "has the power to change the world for good." Couldn't both be true depending on who is in control?
I like to think so...good question!
Anyone who understands AI, would agree with that statement. It's so obvious after reading even a single book about the subject. AGI will be the most important invention mankind will produce, as well as our last and final one. This is not really up for debate, i'm always floored how people don't get this. There is only a single future in the horizon, an artificial super intelligence that will doom the planet and the Hubble volume OR solve every problem humanity will ever face.
My thoughts exactly
Every bit of tech including computers and AI originate from the human brain, an even more complex computer. If we’ve thought about the possibility of them taking over, it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a reality. So that I do agree with him about.
The proposition of self-recursive general AI is exactly that the AI is in control. Think of it as a robot that writes its own code to control itself and thereby control its own evolution. Now imagine taking a look at this planet from a perspective of an alien lifeform and asking the question - "What organism on this beautiful planet is the most destructive and should therefore be up for extermination to serve the greater good of the planet?"
Am I the only one who has never paid any attention to Twitter.
Me, I don't know anything about Twitter and don't have any interest in finding out.
I’d say so far Elon Musk buying Twitter has been a complete and utter success to anyone who isn’t far left leaning
Cause you're bot. It's been a shit show. Him suing advertisers proves that he's made a royal mess of it.
It's dumb how you see all of a sudden millionaire musicians and singers saying they are leaving twitter and regular people thinking they are sticking it to "the man." I feel like i'm taking crazy pills.
It´s the woke mind virus.
new oxford dictionary term: Elonation - a swift annihilation of a company.
In my opinion, it's unscientific to write twitter off as a failure this early. It's reasonable to hypothesize that twitter will fail, but no evidence has been presented that Elon Musk has failed to achieve whatever goals he set out to do.
Well we are talking about a guy who says Mars in 5 years, but that's 10 years ago, so I going with nope.
@@Bonesph I've been reliably informed that building a website is actually far harder than entering the global automobile market, building a space program, or indeed than building a website that provides financial transaction services. So I think you have made an excellent prediction here.
You're a bit behind everyone else, though. Check twitter for latest information on whether twitter is still working. 😆
@@Bonesph 😂👌🏼
He recently sued advertisers, is that enough proof 1 yr later?
I guess I’m an Elon fan.
Twitter employees had free wine and beer and, IIRC, Twitter spent hundreds of dollars per person for lunch.
The business wasn’t optimized.
It’s a job not an adult daycare.
I’m sure he got rid of the fluff and kept most of the engineers and whatever else was required to run the business.
I don’t see anything wrong with that. But, then I’ve been in Silicon Valley for decades and have seen the waste. Employees should be doing work 90% of the time. I don’t think that it too much to ask, especially considering our compensation.
At least Elon is transparent. The Wall Street guys are the ones to fear in my opinion. Thank you!
People need to stop liking elon and trump because. “Transparency”. They are about as transparent as a brick wall. They are loud and bold people, but behind the scenes they pretend to be self made and charismatic when in reality they were handed an easy mode to the game that is life. They will never be like someone like me or you. They will always be people who can get tax exemptions for donating to charities of shell companies they already own, getting away with massive crimes and taking money from the poorest members of society with no return. Dude straight up laid off 50% of Twitter staff then had to beg them to comeback after the site becomes unstable.
It’s absolutely crazy how someone who makes 10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10, what you make but still be absolutely worthless. Do not let this guys trick you into thinking they are transparent or smart.
"A terminator who commutes to work" - this is amazing and I love it
"It wasn't a self driving system but it was a self running people over system."
😂🤣
technically it's still only a driver-assisted running people over system 😂
😂😂😂🤦🏽♀️
I thought he was going to say "self-crashing system" lol
I can't believe a billionaire would be allowed to own a media platform. What's next a billionaire owning WAPO or all the other social media platforms.
Lol even more dry humor!
i see you haydur
You never know Mark Zuckerberg??? Mark also take over Instagram and WhatsApp.
I don't understand the reasoning of this commnet. Who's supposed to own multi-billion industries then? Average blue collar Joe's? These platforms are not charities.
I mean… most big tech people are millionaires or future billionaires so… you should believe it!!
I don’t understand the take here, Dr. Grande both making fun of Elon for being concerned about AI and then making fun of those who think Elon’s concerns are overblown. Sometimes the derision on this channel lands as harsh for no good reason, not connected to calling out harmful actions.
Hello Dr. Grande, I have read a bit about this subject and I am very glad you are analyzing it for us. I agree very much that the takeover demonstrates the danger of grandiose narcissism and lack of insight. You analyzed him well, he thinks he knows it all but never questions his own decisions and he brought as you said " his own brand of pomposity". Thank you for your hard work. Best Regards.
Pfff
yes. 💯 agree!
Well, a diagnosis of "narcissism" would require that Musk is impliedly projecting a False Self--i.e. a false image of himself as a highly-successful businessperson capable of accomplishing almost anything he sets his mind to in the business sphere, even if his methods are idiosyncratic, incomprehensible, and seem illogical and ad hoc to us mere mortals. But, that's not a false self in Musk's case. An incredibly successful businessperson with virtually unlimited potential business-wise is Musk's TRUE self. JFC he is literally the richest person in the world, barring possibly some oil sultans, and the vast majority of his wealth having been acquired from his entrepreneurial acumen in multiple fields over multiple decades. "Grandiosity," a key component of narcissism, requires a delusionally over-inflated and unearned self-regard. The world's richest person who has succeeded time and again in many high stakes business ventures, thinking he can somehow do it again in social media, may turn out to be wrong, as all high risk business ventures have a risk of failure. But does not imply a delusional level of grandiosity. (An analogy might be if 7-time Superbowl champ Tom Brady went to a new team that was in disarray and not very good, believing he could turn it into a Superbowl champion. That would not be evidence of delusional grandiosity. Because he has the actual ability to do it, although never any guarantees.) I think Dr. Grande is starting to play just a little too much to the progressive peanut gallery with some of these videos, perhaps reflecting the psychologist's own unconscious cognitive biases.
I'm no big fan of Musk, but the guy constantly questions his own decisions and backtracks or completely 180s (publicly) if he's given information that contradicts his original decision.
He wouldn't have got to where he is today if he only listened to himself.
@@SolarJakee his analysis on Elon is off..he doesn't like him 🤷♀️
From what I've seen thus far, he seems open to input & criticism
Twitter is the stupidest app on earth. Giving ppl the idea that their opinions are worth sharing with the world. Not all are, ignorance is rampant.
Never seen someone throw away $44 billion so fast. True genius. 👌
Loving your tears. You're gonna outdo the sea level rise of "Global Warming". Hahaha.
@@Surge_LaChance My tears of laughter? 😂
Hopefully people start to calm down and understand that they can't demand group think. People will rebel if they are being told they can't think for themselves. Something really did need to change with the 1984 ish stuff.
It's rather ironic that a man who is socially challenged would now own and head the largest social media company in the world.
The owner of the other one, isn't exactly a social genius either
@@hansyman7775 true lol
Dr. Grande "if it wasn't for cancel culture, America wouldn't have any culture at all. In fact, the only thing that should be canceled is cancel culture."
Cyborg Grande "what about New Jersey?"
Dr. Grande "cancel it."
I'm not a psychologist or a specialist in this topic.
I don't understand why you think that Elon is motivated by anger. I think that he fired this many people purely for logical reasons and for the goal of saving Twitter.
What kind of brain damage do you actually get when you're always surrounded by Yes-Man?
Elon doesn't strike me as a narcissist, at least not on any of the hours long podcasts he did with Joe Rogan and Lex Friedman.
How do you distinguish between the person and what the media says about. Especially if the media owners have their own intentions. Comments about popular people, especially rich popular, should probably be taken with a few more grains of salt.
I know change is hard sometimes and I like the led lights, but I miss the brick wall!!!
I do really appreciate all the hard work you do, to teach and entertain us-
I wonder if that 44 billion dollars was the single largest purchase ever made…
thanks Dr. Grande!😊
I miss the brick wall years 😢
He just moved into that house and studio - give a little time !
@@bthomson ok but he could go to Home Depot and just get 2 sheets of brick paneling and lean it up on the white wall behind him maybe …
We are all so involved with him! I hope he takes it as the compliment it really is!
The brick wall is at a right angle from this background.
Dr Grande is on FIRE 🔥with his analysis just like Elon's Tesla Model Y car. 🔥
Did I actually see a screen shot of a tweet from EM’s account asking “if there was anyone in the building who knew how to write code to please report to the 10th floor immediately”??? True or not…it’s pretty hilarious!!!
True. The building you can only enter with access cards that are disabled.
That’s exactly how i imagine these places work
He asked coders to show up at the 10th floor with proof of work they had done in the last six months. He has access to all of this data already and most likely knew exactly how many of his staff had not written any code in that time period before making the announcement. And yes, it is hilarious.
13:04-13:09 „Clients that hear to Kamala Harris thoughts and believe she is forming cohesive thoughts”..😂❤so much on the spot! Thanks again for this analysis!
My view is that a final judgement on Twitter/Musk is premature, however, it was clear that the entire Twitter organization required a meat cleaver as opposed to a scalpel to derail the impossible culture that had evolved there. Really, I don't care whether or not Twitter prospers and I hope that it acquires a handful of competitors but with freedom of speech (with some limitations to control illegal/immoral acts and/or recruiting) at the core.
Yep..premature
I adore this Man. Very smart and bright. Yes if I was him, I fire all those lazy workers. I totally agree with Elon. Now pandemic is no longer exist, come back to the office. I worked remotely during the pandemic. Most coworkers neglected the job thinking no one knows what they doing, and that the reason most businesses production went horribly down. I like the way he handles the business, that's why he's not only wealthy but the most ingenious Man in the he planet. Fire all and replace with people who are willing to seriously working.
My man out here making jokes without even cracking the slightest smile lol 👌🏿
The bias is glaringly clear with this video. I’m not even really a fan of Elon, but this is certainly the tell tale story of Dr. Grande’s world view, and agenda.
I fail to understand the worship around Elon, same as I'd say the cult like worship of Steve Jobs. I think partly we have media to blame, for making celebrities out of CEO's. I recall being taught about James E. Burke in my Economics class - I didn't know who he was, or his contribution to Johnson & Johnson during a time of crisis for the company; but I do wish if we were to celebrate people, I wish people like James E. Burke would receive more attention than people like Elon and Elizabeth Holmes. Sadly, the nature of human kind is - we're drawn to notorious individuals. Thank you for your analysis, Dr. Grande.
Those of us who don't worship him, and also don't hate him also find it interesting to watch the ferocity of the hate aimed at him in recent times.
@@flain283 Do you think it equals or exceeds his worshippers?
@@flain283 so many people have to go to extremes nowadays (I’m feeling old!). His supporters won’t hear a bad word against him, and his ‘haters’ can’t acknowledge his successes. Life is so much more complex. It’s interesting to watch people entrench themselves into their position
@@THE-id1by i haven't met a worshipper and i mainly just read the news, so it seems to me that the hate exceeds it - what do you think? If you are seeing the worshipping what news are you seeing it on?
Dr Grande, your voice, enlightens me, humors me, and puts me to sleep at the same time
It doesn't matter whether he's bias or not, we all are. The only difference here is he biased against free speech or for free speech. It is not our place to tell others what they can or cannot say. We can only control what we say and do not other people and it's best for people to learn if you don't like something someone says you can leave or walk away. You don't have to stand there and take it you can go home.
But for some reason people have chosen confrontation which tends to make everything worse if it's for the wrong reasons.
I heard that a lot of the Twitter employees didn't work very hard. They would spend their days watching television, playing games, doing yoga, and so on. They needed change, but maybe Elon is not the one they need.
Some of the remaining employees are only allowed to stay in the United States with the understanding that they remain employed. This means Elon can work them to death with threat of deportation if they question him and get fired for their trouble.
working hard is not inherently necessary or morally better
@@XYZ-kb3mm I don't agree with making them work 80 hours a week, but I also don't believe the workplace is the place for recreation. I also realize that he might not be the best person to work for, but I also appreciate the fact that he's restored free speech to Twitter.
@@XYZ-kb3mm Many people disagree with you. I believe hard work is healthy for your brain chemistry. It staves off mental illness and improves people with mental health problems. Hard work can be done with a positive and healthy attitude and contributes to meaning and purpose in life as well as positive neurotransmitters being released consistently due to completing tasks and being/feeling useful.
Furthermore, many people believe that being useful and working hard is morally necessary.
@@revacohen Is there a source for this 80hr week claim, aside from him saying it will be required to meet the deadline in early November?
Hope you're doing well Dr G.
The crack about VP Harris was hilarious. You're great at throwing a bit of shade at both sides when deserved
He is very even handed!
Sad to say, but I know people who describe her as articulate. They are quite serious, and want her as our next president.
@@kalikeleka she was articulate: when she was either putting pot heads in jail or reading from a script someone else wrote. She's a one trick pony, maybe 2.
I find it interesting when one group sensors everyone that they choose, it’s no big deal, let someone want to change that all hell brakes loose.
@katja peeters It's also called seeing in others the evil you possess in yourself, and you're both right.
Look how many subscribers you have now! I remember watching you when you had 300k 😭. I’m so happy for your success 👏
Dr. Grande As a mother of an ex twitter employee that was hired by the diversion dept. (my son although has a master degree in mathematics, also has Asperger syndrome, and worked from home ) thank you so much for the empathy. Not all twitter employees had high salaries, and still dont understand how and why my son was laid off. It seems like Musk put names in a bowl and fired whatever name he picked out!!! Again after seen so much hate for the ex employees thank you for your empathy
It’s a shame to leave out his firsthand experience of living in a state that denies freedom to a race of people.
Also it’s silly to hear all these verdicts on his handling of Twitter when he’s owned it for what, a month now?
Twitter had a heavy excess of labor and bots. Those two issues there are very significant in turning a company around.
@Dominic Durant yup
@Dominic Durant I agree. I do love his channel but sometimes he just seems to be on the bandwagon and it’s disappointing.
I think Dr Grande is strengths is people analysis and behaviour. When it comes to technical knowledge I the Dr is lacking.
@@Zen_Power that’s probably accurate. I’ve noticed I disagree with those aspects regularly. Lots of respect for him though.
I love how all these people who’ve never run a business know better how to run a business than a man whose built multiple businesses worth more than 1 billion dollars.
I love how people excuse his absolutely idiotic actions, and instead of justifying why they actions made sense they instead point to his net worth and think that somehow makes a stupid decision good.
@@JohnSmith-fz1ih I love how people make spectacular predictions, and instead of noticing how badly their predictions have turned out they point to his net worth and think that somehow makes a good decision stupid 😛
@@markbrown7662 I gather that was an attempted snipe at me, but I’m not sure what you’re referring to because I didn’t make any predictions. I also didn’t say his decisions were bad because he’s a billionaire. I said his decisions were bad, and him being a billionaire doesn’t somehow make them good. I’m literally saying his net worth isn’t relevant to whether his decisions are good or bad, and you seem to have interpreted that as me saying his decisions are bad because he’s a billionaire. Colour me confused if that’s how you interpreted my comments.
@@JohnSmith-fz1ih Sorry, not intended. I meant "people" in the same way you did - to refer to people who had entered the debate - and the observations weren't meant to contradict yours. I agree net worth is irrelevant. I just think the two groups of people may be cancelling each other out in the debate 😁
I don’t know how to run a business, but it is increasingly obvious that the privileged son Elongated Muskrat also doesn’t
Thank God for Elon. We need freedom of speech, not freedom to overreach.
Thank you! I really love listening to what you have to share. I am really learning so much and i love your dry humor! I appreciate you dr. Grande!
I agree with you most of the time Dr Grande, this is not one of those times.
Yep this is basically political trolling
That video had some of your best one liners. Thanks for helping me start my Sunday with a few good laughs 😂. The video was informative. I’m always up for a dose of your objectivity
No one liners about the bloated workspace of Twitter?
Me too.
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You should see the one about the cop who wanted to eat his wife😂😂😂 He has Soo many good ones, it is hard to pick one!
Especially the dig at Kamala Harris! Too funny!
Elon Musk is a real life James Bond villain.
Still less evil and narcissistic than the typical Twitter wokester.
Twitter is better with Musk than it was with those leftist bigots that ran the platform for years
🤣🤣🤣
I hope that someday someone will do a video on the business practices and lack of ethics of the original PayPal company.
How could the worlds richest person be a bad person ??? All the inordinate wealth in one man’s hand. What could possibly go wrong
I wish Elon would buy Facebook next and run it into the ground !
In my opinion social media has a ridiculous importance in people's life. Looks like people takes far too seriously what others post, as if we never speak nosense in our daily life. Now it's written on the internet, and given 3000x more importance as the comment really has.
I deleted Twitter in 2017. It was toxic then and it’s apparently only gotten worse.
If you follow toxic people, that’s what happens. That is not my case at all. I love Twitter, and it didn’t get worse. To me and many others, it got better because it allows freedom of speech, and there are more features. Re-subscribe Patricia. You will love it now. What a terrible biased analysis by Dr.Todd, by the way, which is usually unbiased and on point
The Kamala Harris comment 😂🤣😂😂
A lot of MBA courses advocate the "gradual change" style of managerial change over, involving communicating with staff about problems in the company, and how the new management team are going to solve them. As the management consultant Peter Drucker once said "Culture eats strategy." and I think we're going to see a lot of this at Twitter over the next few months.
I agree but this is different because he has fired so many people that creates a vacuum in culture that he can leverage
I think Elon Musk has gone into Twitter with a lot of assumptions about why they do certain things. They ban hate speech? Must be ideologically motivated.. I'm going to allow any speech... but then advertisers back away, most likely because they don't want their advertisements next to hate speech.. again, Elon Musk assumes their motivation - these advertisers must be ideologically motivated.. time and time again Elon Musk just imagines why people are doing something, and makes decisions based on those assumptions, and when things don't go his way he seems to imagine another reason why people are behaving certain ways.
At the end of the day, advertisers want to make money. Social media makes a lot of money, but requires some regulation to make the most amount if money. If people are assuming every regulation has some hidden agenda or secret ideology, I just don't think that's reasonable, but that seems to be exactly what Elon Musk thought was happening when he went in, guns blazing trying to fight some perceived enemy
@@trybunt I can't understand how someone as intelligent and business savvy as Elon Musk didn't realise that trying to destroy a corprorate culture then rebuild in the image of what he thinks it should be would not cause a backlash among his workers.
@@JFDA5458 To me, it’s because Elon is a technical thinker who doesn’t appreciate the grey areas because it’s inefficient and requires too much patience plus doesn’t align with his privileged perspective. Simply put - he doesn’t care. That’s why Tesla cars lack fit and finish to the point where a basic car wash will leak water into the interior of the car.
@@trybunt I think the problem is that some people, like yourself, assume things like "Elon is going to allow hate speech." First of all, hate speech is a completely nebulous and subjective term that can mean different things to different people. Second of all, Elon prioritizes free speech, within the bounds of the law. Why has the culture shifted on this issue so far as to be authoritarian? Why is everyone so threatened by what people might have to say? Thirdly, Elon actually hasn't even changed the Twitter guidelines on speech.
The problem at Twitter was that you had activists, colluding with and pressuring private companies, and even governments, to silence voices they are ideologically opposed to.
It seems to me that Elon bought a failing company, that was full of bloat. With employees basically doing nothing, and bragging about it on social media. I think Elon is going to try and turn this company into one that can possibly make some money.
And if "private companies" are so keen on dictating what people can say, I say it's high time for those companies to fuck off. I don't care if it's the government trying to silence people, or private companies, at the end of the day, it's a violation.
Happy that Musk owns Twitter.
I love your videos Dr. Grande, but I have to disagree with you on this one. He is not throwing a tantrum when he fired people. He fired them because he realized it was an enormous waste of manpower to have that many people working for a company that does what Twitter does. He saw that the website could run with far fewer people than are currently employed. That’s actually a smart business move.
Brilliant review, this was such an intelligent and classy way to describe Elon Musk. You never disappoint, Dr. Grande.
Thank you.❤
And may we say that Rejane's comments are always equally classy! 💐
@@bthomson That’s very kind of you, Judy! Thank you so much.🥹
SJ - We do not know your usual disposition. Maybe you are always disappointed? Hope not! 🤖
@@bthomson I normally enjoy Dr. Grande's videos, but this one is a disappointment.
I 100% agree Rejane. Musk see's things as black and white. Which is great for Tesla and SpaceX. However, Twitter is full of dealing with subtleties and grey areas.
I really hope Elon bought Twitter just to destroy it. That would do more for the progress of humanity than getting to Mars. One can only dream.
I'll take Elon's bias over the bias from the snowflakes who ran Twitter. Elon appears to be reasonable.
@@AnaLucia-wy2ii everyone has bias.
This is why our generation needs another Christine Chubbuck. Instead of "blood and guts" news on TV, we're now obsessed over biased news on social media.
You had me in stitches. When he started appearing in headlines, started commenting on culture and politics, I figured he wasn't really a businessman, but a narcissist. I wouldn't be surprised if his businesses all tank, starting first with Twitter. He's taken his eye off them and that's usually the beginning of the end.
Whatever you say 😏
To be fair: one can absolutely be both a businessman and a narcissist. The problem with Elon Musk, however, is rather the endless power he has through his money than his personality; which in turn is probably corrupted by his riches.
@@alexanderfo3886 Yes, you are right. An entrepenuer like Musk will almost surely have an overabundance of self-confidence. But, self-confidence is one thing, megalomania is something else. Remains to be seen if he will rein in his current impulses and focus on his businesses.
"I wouldn't be surprised if his businesses all tank, starting first with Twitter."
One can only hope.
While I totally agree with Dr. Grande's personality analysis of Elon Musk, my gut instinct is that this is a classic example of a cigar being just a cigar. I think in the next year we're gonna start learning a lot about social media companies...mainly that a lot of them are bloated overstaffed operations with extremely low productivity, but their profitability has been so incredibly high that they could operate this way for a long time. Now that's starting to change, and Twitter is the first (and highest profile) to get an old fashioned house cleaning, with many others to follow.
Twitter wasn't a profitable company. Considering how many moving parts it has inside it the number of people it wasn't really bloated with staff. The way that Elon is going Twitter is heading for an outage that will last days, if not weeks, when something really breaks or they get attacked by a hacker or bot network and don't have the staff to diagnose and fix the damage done by the attack.
Mark Zuckerberg also fires his employee but everybody hating on Musk 😨😨😨😨
yeah it looks good for these companies to have huge glamorous campuses with tons of employees, whether they need them or not. Mine's bigger than yours!
@@Nightdreaux22647 It's all in how it's done. Meta is laying off employees in a seemingly structured way. Musk is announcing at 4PM on a Friday that anybody that doesn't report back to work by 7PM that night is fired. Big difference in little dick energy there.
You seem confused about several factors, one of the main ones being profitability of social media companies. In this case, from a recent analysis, coinciding with all other financials from past years:
'As of 2022, Twitter is not profitable. In fact, in 2021, on $5 billion in revenues, Twitter generated over $220 million in net losses. In Q2 2022, on $1.17 billion in revenues, Twitter posted a net loss of $270 million. However, in the first six months of 2022, on almost $2.4 billion in revenues, Twitter generated over $240 million in net income.'
Musk made a rookie mistake, his ego failed to allow him to accept ALL the expert advice that his slash and burn tactics at Twitter can only result in massive failure and it has unfolded exactly as he was told it would, but chose to ignore.
Liberals and leftists are not the same ideology.
I was not a fan of the old Twitter, and it sounds like I'm not going to be a fan of the new one, either. I certainly feel for the rank and file employees at the company who were only doing their jobs. Thanks for what you do, Dr. Grande. I'm always impressed by your insights.
Most of them were getting full pay while working very little. Project Verita’s has a video showing an employee saying engineers work 4 hours w eeek. They had the good life and it’s done now. Welcome to the real world of WORKING. You know, where you actually work 😂
There's no way anything could be as bad as the old Twitter. Might as well have been labeled a "safe space".
It's a censored platform that spreads gossip, what do you expect?
Doesn't sound like they were actually doing their jobs...
They got paid 250k to do minimum work
Interesting topic. Thank you Dr G!
A James Bond villain's business holding portfolio😂
His fans are what annoy me. It's not like he's the only innovator in the world or even that smart. It's just most physicists, chemists, and programmers have no desire to have 11.5 million likes on the Twitter machine
If misinformation in this video was a drinking game, we would have had to make a beer run. Like EM, or hate him, you can't deny his success. I doubt this video will age well.
Please analyze the University of Idaho students' deaths! There's so much mystery around it and I'd love to know what you have to say.
One person should not hoard so much wealth. Absolutely ridiculous
He's creating Jobs, not hoarding. How many people do YOU employ?
Most people just fundamentally can't comprehend how much a billion dollars is, let alone 100 billion. It's absurd, billionaires should not exist
@@vb8801 Sure, no one should earn so much so they can make jobs for other at their car factory. So evil. Ha ha ha
@@vb8801Lol well they didn’t steal it. The rest of us buy their product or services. The issue is with the common people, if there is an issue.
Now spaceX is more consistent than NASA. How the tides have drastically turned.
Excellent analysis of Elon Musk. As usual, Dr Grande is spot on in his objective unemotional study and commentary of people in the news
The fact that someone cares enough to aloud (everyone the right to speak) ,,,,, very important,, and very true,,, nobody is perfect
It's only a matter of time before Elon is doing Dos Equis commercials. He's the richest, the most successful, the most interesting man of our time. I say this as a person who, ironically, doesn't drive a Tesla, has never flown into space on a rocket, doesn't have StarLink, and does not have a Twitter account.
As someone who has been annoyed by Elon and his fan boys for a long time, I love this video.
Musk didn’t get to be the richest man in the world without knowing what he is doing.
I'm a fan of your CZcams channel, analyzes, and humor. However, I hope you're wrong on this one. Elon musk has done much good and I believe his intent with Twitter is very positively motivated. I hope he proves all the naysayers wrong and is able to have great success with Twitter. That being said, I also believe most social media is somewhere between fetid sewage and being an open cesspool. So, Elon has his work cut out for him this time!
Few things; You should have mentioned why he left South-Africa; He and Kimbal, his brother didn't want to support the apartheid government and go to the mandatory military service.
The claim that Errol (his father) owned half of an emerald mine was made by him and no one has ever produced any proof of this. Nevertheless the fact that he left South-Africa with his brother without any financial help from his family and then got into student loan debt and then created Zip2 (you misnamed the company btw) and made their fortune is also something you should have mentioned. He is self-made and this is important because there are so many people who desperately want to claim otherwise, hence the emerald mine claim circulating in the internet.
I have a "wait and see" attitude toward Elon Musk. I'm certainly no genius.
The concern with AI is that the algorithms that run them are opaque to the general public. A lot of effort goes into trying to remove bias from machine learning as it can appear unintentionally. I doubt Elan fears that robots will take over and instead fears that mundane people and their political handlers will point towards AI output as "fact" or the "best possible answer" when it isn't, or assuming that the algorithm is fair. Anyways, I know you were joking, just thought I'd clarify because it's going to be a hot issue in about 10-20 years. Love your vids!
The scary thing about machine learning is not even the developers know how an AI accomplishes things like recognizing images.
People are so obsessed with Elon being evil. Twitter is toxic for sure but I understand the importance of free speech. I don’t support hate speech but it is nice that peoples ignorance has a place to broadcast if only to expose them for what they are.
As long as he doesn't ban and censor people, he's kept his word. With a few exceptions, like doxing or pretending to be other people like Ethan Klein did.
He paid more than twice what Twitter is worth, and now he's running it into the ground. Let's just see what happens. Maybe he'll succeed.
Loved the line about how the number of people who know of him will only go up as people are run over by his cars! I almost spit my water out!
I'm glad people are slowly starting to realize who Musk actually is. Nothing sort of a reprehensible individual, and far from a genius.
Musk is a Genius Propaganda has been working for way too long
But off course you have seen the “truth” all along… 😂
People realized that long ago.
@@PrettyFLY4aWiFi. omg as a conservative these unnecessary statements are what make the political system so polarized. I hope you’re at least successful…. I’m sorry your comment just reminded me of a fellow I met who literally was a bum but just wants to take a stance .
@@DB-ol6yg maybe you should learn the meaning of the word Sarcasm
It's crazy how fast your channel grew, dude. I'm happy for you, just always a strange thing to see. One day you can write a comment and probably have it be read to a creator and possibly responded to, a week later you mine as well be writing the president via message in bottle lobbed into the sea.
An accurate historical analysis of the madness that is grandiose greed on a level we've never seen before.
$190 BILLION and he still wants to charge users for a service that was free.
Happy Sunday Dr. Grande & audiences! ❤️❤️❤️
Proud Patreon supporter here! 🤘❤️
Me too!
@@bthomson Yaaaay! 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
Oh boy! Here we go!
Hahah I love hearing about Elon, he’s a very interesting and unique character!
No. He didn’t. He’s inviting everyone to the conversation. Every REAL person.
He's the living proof of how far a conman can get in our society.
You're an imbecile if you believe EM is a conman.
@@saxglend9439 In 18 years Tesla only made a profit for one year. He got rich of fanboys like you investing in his stuff no matter what. That and the negative nominal rates he got from the fed, and the money he got from the taxpayers. But I know, I'm the imbecile ey, you are the smart one. Just buy Tesla en Twitter stock then if u think he's so great.
How is Musk a conman?
@@rubenaerts7284 I'm not a fanboy and I've never invested in anything. Musk has a degree in physics.
Conman ?🤣
Dr Grande, I think a super fun one would be if you could almost try to distill Twitter users into 1 person and then "speculate on what might be going on"
I can distill the current state of mind of Twitter users in two words: cognitive dissonance.
Hahaha! Good idea!
I’ve Been Waiting On You To Cover This Topic Doc, It’s Always Refreshing To Hear Your Analysis, Top Of The Morning To You By The Way 🙌🏽
I know that ALL CAPS indicates shouting or yelling, but What Does Capitalizing The First Letter Mean?
@@melangegirl Your Concerned Why??
@@melangegirlI came to the comments to see if it had been mentioned 👏🏻
@@melangegirl nothing, bad grammar, and makes it hard to read
I'm starting to think Elon is just another billionaire taking pleasure in playing with our lives.
Erick Romulan who is just another corporate raider