Elon Musk said he has fired as much as 80% of the Twitter workforce since buying the company last year after confessing he only agreed to the takeover because a judge would have forced him to do so.
In a twisting and wide-ranging two-hour interview with the BBC, arranged just minutes in advance, the billionaire Tesla boss said staff numbers at the social media site had been slashed from just shy of 8,000 to around 1,500 in a bid to accelerate the firm’s drive to profitability, a move which he described as “painful” and “not fun at all.”
