Given the debt load and price that Twitter was purchased for, Musk is immediately put in the position of being a Horowitzian war time CEO, and all of his actions should be seen in that lens.
Firing dissenters, immediate revenue changes, execution that values speed over perfection, mistakes are inevitable and tolerated, etc.
This makes a lot of sense to me.
In the situation its likely more valuable to do something than to do the perfectly right thing.
I'll also add, people don't tend to judge what Musk is doing by values that the man obviously doesn't share.
The guy has repeatedly bet his net worth on his own vision for the businesses he's involved with. Most people, even extremely rich people, aren't willing to do that.
I don't know what his vision is, and I can't even begin to imagine it. But clearly it is different to what Twitter has been historically.
Either his behaviour is being done intentionally (which is what I believe) or he's just fucking up massively.
I find it equally implausible that Musk and the people around him are unaware of the near term impacts of their actions than we are as laymen and outsiders.
I find it more plausible that he/they decided to take certain actions knowing that the near term impact would be negative to Twitter's historic business model and accretive to its future.
I don't know why the man says what he does, and I'm not very onboard with the narrative he's a Trump/Kanye type loose cannon.
I don't care one way or another about Elon Musk and what he does, but I do respect his sheer audacity.
