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From April 7, 2022 (src), between Elon Musk and Parag Agrawal, regarding Musk's acquisition of Twitter:

Elon Musk:

I have a ton of ideas but lmk if I'm pushing too hard. I just want Twitter to be maximum amazing.

Parag Agrawal:

I want to hear all the ideas - and I'll tell you which ones I'll make progress on vs. not. And why.

And in this phase -- just good to spend as much time with you. + have my Product and Eng team talk to you to ingest information on both sides.

Elon Musk:

I would like to understand the technical details of the Twitter codebase. This will help me calibrate the dumbness of my suggestions.

I wrote heavy duty software for 20 years.

Parag Agrawal:

I used to be CTO and have been in our codebase for a long time.

So I can answer many many of your questions.

Elon Musk:

I interface way better with engineers who are able to do hardcore programming than with program managers / MBA types of people.

:fire emoji: :fire emoji:

Parag Agrawal:

in our next convo - treat me like an engineer instead of CEO and lets see where we get to. I'll know after that convo who might be the best engineer to connect you with.

Elon Musk:

Frankly, I hate doing mgmt stuff. I kinda don't think anyone should be the boss of anyone. But I love helping solve technical/product design problems.

You got it!

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