Company is not only "proverbial Musk".
That kind of thinking is misplaced loyalty: you think you're being loyal to your colleagues, but really you're being loyal to the owner. Trying to protect your colleagues from a toxic workplace is just a recipe for more toxicity.
Musk will see or feel a difference if Twitter's technology organization collapses to the point that they have trouble maintaining the site (e.g. return of the fail whale).
In all seriousness, I find it an interesting case. There is a lot of speculation on how essential individuals and teams are to a business, let's check back here in a year or so.
At my current gig, some key engineers were let go of, and certain parts of the stack are struggling (and they are reaching out via backchannels). At the same time, the graveyard is filled with irreplaceable people...
Wild ride for sure at Twitter engineering right now.
and now that a vaguely not-beholden-to-democrats figure is in power they're all switching their tune to disingenuous free speech advocacy?
