{"id":877764,"date":"2024-11-18T08:14:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T02:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=877764"},"modified":"2024-11-18T08:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T03:06:38","slug":"slash-first-fix-later-how-elon-musk-cuts-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/18\/slash-first-fix-later-how-elon-musk-cuts-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Slash first, fix later: How Elon Musk cuts costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a Saturday morning in December 2022, Elon Musk summoned finance executives at Twitter, which he had bought six weeks earlier, to a conference call. Then he drilled into a spreadsheet that contained the social media company\u2019s expenditures. <\/p>\n<p>Musk was angry, three people who were on the call said. Even though Twitter had just shed more than three-quarters of its employees \u2014 leaving it with just over 1,500 workers, down from nearly 8,000 \u2014 the company\u2019s spending still appeared to be out of control, the billionaire told attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a Saturday morning in December 2022, Elon Musk summoned finance executives at Twitter, which he had bought six weeks earlier, to a conference call. Then he drilled into a spreadsheet that contained the social media company\u2019s expenditures. Musk was angry, three people who were on the call said. Even though Twitter had just shed more than three-quarters of its employees \u2014 leaving it with just over 1,500 workers, down from nearly 8,000 \u2014 the company\u2019s spending still appeared to be out of control, the billionaire told attendees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}