In the eight months that Elon Musk was CEO of Twitter, he created financial chaos within the company by dramatically slashing costs (including waves of layoffs), eliminating employee bonuses and benefits, and failing to pay the bills. Twitter owes money to many companies and individuals, and now it’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino’s job to clean up the accounting mess.
Today Twitter resumed paying its bills to Google Cloud, and Bloomberg reported that Yaccarino is in talks with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian to try to repair the companies’ fraught relationship. Twitter uses Google Cloud for data analysis and machine learning, and historically was the computing service’s most important client (although recently Google Cloud has broadened its customer base). Platformer first reported that Twitter stopped paying Google Cloud on June 10.
