Former Twitter exec says a mercurial Musk rules by 'gut'

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Former Twitter exec says a mercurial Musk rules by 'gut'
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SAN FRANCISCO — A fired Twitter product manager said Mr Elon Musk ran the company newly renamed X by instinct not data, surrounded by sycophants with his mood changing unpredictably.

A fired Twitter product manager said Mr Elon Musk ran the company newly renamed X by instinct not data, surrounded by sycophants with his mood changing unpredictably.

Crawford joined Twitter when it bought her startup in 2020, before Mr Musk bought the social media platform for US$44b ."The challenge is his personality and demeanour can turn on a dime going from excited to angry." "Product and business decisions were nearly always the result of him following his gut instinct, and he didn't seem compelled to seek out or rely on a lot of data or expertise to inform it."

Mr Musk has proven successful in tackling engineering problems, but a social networking platform requires emotional intelligence, Ms Crawford said. After buying Twitter, Mr Musk had said that he wanted to create a super-app inspired by China's WeChat, which would function as a social media platform and offer messaging and payments.

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