Elon Musk’s X
What it’s like to work at Elon Musk’s X
With Elon Musk in Portofino, Italy, this week for Chamath Palihapitiya’s wedding, and Linda Yaccarino in Los Angeles for a celebrity charm offensive, their rank and file tore down bird logos in the office with power tools. Twitter is becoming X.Getting rid of the Twitter brand makes no traditional business sense, of course. But it makes sense to Musk, who answers to no one and is continuing to shape the platform how he, and only he, sees fit. If you still work at the company formerly known as Twitter these days, you’ve come to peace with that fact or perhaps even grown excited by it. Now that Musk has stripped the company down to the studs, with only about 200 engineers and a handful of product managers left, I’ve been wondering: what’s in it for those who remain?Remarkably, Musk has yet to actually issue employee stock grants in X Holdings Corporation, the parent company of what was Twitter, I’m told. That’s despite him saying in February that grants would be issued by late March at a valuation of $20 billion. Instead, employees have been given an IOU in the form of a document saying the company intends to grant them restricted stock units.Start your Command Line free trial now to continue readingThis story is exclusively for subscribers of Command Line, our newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation. Subscribe to a plan below for full access.Already a Command Line subscriber?Sign inWe accept credit card, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. Having issues?Click here for FAQ