Mark Zuckerberg on Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter

You know, I do think that Elon led a push early on to make Twitter a lot leaner. You can agree or disagree with exactly all the tactics and how. And how he 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 at the company and him, like, fewer layers of management, I think that those were generally good changes. And 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, you know, just in my conversations with other founders and how people have reacted to the things that we've done, you know, 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 the ability to think through how to shape their organizations in a way that hopefully can be good for the industry and make all these companies more productive over time. So something that. That was one where I think he was quite ahead of a bunch of the other companies on and just, you know, what he was doing there. You know, again, from the outside, very hard to know. It's like, okay, did he. Did he cut too much? Did he not cut enough? Whatever? I don't think it's like, my place to opine on that. And you asked for a positive framing of the question of what do I admire? What do I think went well? But I think certainly his actions led me and I think a lot of other folks in the industry to think about, hey, are we kind of doing this as much as we should? Could we make our companies better by pushing on some of these same principles?