Mark Zuckerberg

Again, this is all pretty speculative.

I mean, I think that it's hard from the outside to know why anything does or doesn't work until you kind of take a run at it.

And so I think it's kind of an interesting thing to experiment with, but I don't really know where this one's going to go.

Gosh, it's always very difficult to offer specific critiques from the outside before you get into this.

Because I think one thing that I've learned is that everyone has opinions on what you should do.

And like running the company, you see a lot of specific nuances on things that are not apparent externally.

And I often...

think that some of the discourse around us would be could be better if if there was more kind of space for acknowledging that there's certain things that we're seeing internally that guide what we're doing but um but i don't know i mean because since you asked what what is what is going well um

You know, I do think that Elon led a push early on to make Twitter a lot leaner.

And I think that that, you know, it's like you can agree or disagree with exactly all the tactics and how we did that.

You know, obviously, you know, every leader has their own style for if they, you know, if you need to make dramatic changes for that, how you're going to execute it.

But

A lot of the specific principles that he pushed on around basically trying to make the organization more technical, around decreasing the distance between engineers of the company and him, like fewer layers of management.

I think that those were generally good changes.

And I'm also... I also think that it was probably good for the industry that he made those changes because my sense is that there were a lot of other people who thought that those were good changes, but who may have been a little shy about...

doing them.

And I think he, just in my conversations with other founders and how people have reacted to the things that we've done, what I've heard from a lot of folks is just, hey, when someone like you, when I wrote the letter outlining the organizational changes that I wanted to make back in March, and when people see what Elon is doing, I think that that gives people a

the ability to think through how to shape their organizations in a way that, um, that, that, you know, hopefully can, can be good for the industry and make all these companies more productive over time.

So, um, something that that was one where I think he was, um, quite ahead of, of a bunch of the, the other companies on and, and, and,

you know what he was doing there and again from the outside very hard to know it's like okay did he did he cut too much did he knock enough whatever i i don't think it's like my place to opine on that um and and you asked for a for a positive framing of the question of of what what do i um what do i admire what do i think it went well but i i think that like certainly his actions um