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Steve Mollman

Elon Musk tells Twitter staff about his ‘recession PTSD’ from keeping PayPal and Tesla alive, demands ‘maniacal sense of urgency’

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Elon Musk has been making major changes at Twitter in the past few weeks following his $44 billion takeover of the company. But he hasn’t done much in the way of addressing employees directly. That changed Thursday when he gathered employees for a Q&A session.

Musk told Twitter staff he wants them to work with a “maniacal sense of urgency” because “we are headed into, I think, quite a serious recession,” according to The Verge, which acquired a recording of Musk’s comments.

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