The co-founder of the social network Twitter, Jack Dorsey, praised this Saturday the employees of the company acquired by the tycoon Elon Musk, who announced the dismissal of almost half of his workers.
“People on Twitter, past and present, are strong and resilient,” Jack Dorsey wrote on the social network, a day after half the team at the company he co-founded in 2006 was fired.
“They will always find a way out, no matter how difficult the moment is,” added Dorsey, who left Twitter about a year ago.
Many employees expected a reaction from their former boss and charismatic tech figure when Elon Musk took control of the platform a week ago after a long and troubled takeover process.
As of Friday, about half of the San Francisco business group’s roughly 7,500 employees had been laid off.
“I know a lot of you are mad at me. I take responsibility for anyone in this situation: I let the business grow too fast. I apologize for that,” explained Jack Dorsey, who stepped down from the company’s board of directors in 2022, after having stepped down as CEO of Parag Agrawal, the group’s former chief technology officer, at the end of November 2021.
Elon Musk bought Twitter last Thursday after six months of a bumpy deal process, immediately dissolving the board of directors and firing Agrawal and other top officials.
The also owner of the car company Tesla, took the company out of the stock market and launched large projects in a few hours, while posting messages on Twitter with various promises, “takes” of humor and provocations for his fans and his detractors.
Musk financed the acquisition of 44,000 million dollars (identical value in euros) through personal contributions, loans and partnerships, such as the one he made with the Saudi prince Al-Walid bin Talal, who put in his hands the almost 35 million shares from Twitter. that he already had, becoming the second largest shareholder of the social network.
“I am grateful to everyone who worked on Twitter and I really appreciate each one of them. I don’t expect this to be reciprocated now… Or maybe ever… And I understand,” Dorsey concluded in the message. launched today, accompanied by a heart-shaped ’emoji’, blue like the bird symbol of the social network.
Source: TSF
