This is pretty unsurprising, they're not really going to raise any serious money from this (what do we reckon? 1FTE Salary at most?) but they've got office space for 7.5k people and less than 3k less. Musk keeps saying "If you code come to the 10th floor" - which basically implies that their entire team of engineers fit onto 1 floor of the building and that there a load of empty floors now that don't need kitchens or desks or chairs.
A lot of that stuff doesn't seem to be "office supplies". There's quite a lot of pro kitchen equipment in there. It looks as if they've broken down a big office canteen.
This reminds of the .com crash days so much. There were endless auctions and sales of office furniture, etc. I don’t even think a lot of it got sold as demand was so low and supply so high. I heard stories of people buying chairs that cost $1k for $25, etc.
Damn, a prosciutto slicer!<p><a href="https://www.bidspotter.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/heritage-global-partners/catalogue-id-herita10194/lot-77c093bd-9dc0-4f8d-914a-af6401169064" rel="nofollow">https://www.bidspotter.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/heritage...</a><p>This auction is clearly not for just the _office_ supplies, but still.
For those interested in buying but not in SF, you'll need to arrange your own pickup, craigslist style:<p>"Buyers may either pick up Goods at the designated auction site themselves or can contract with a third party agent to manage the removal process for them."
I always think about the $10,000 couch in the lobby of the Seattle Twitter office that no one ever sat on.<p>Twitter wasted money on shit that didn’t matter for years.
Are they getting rid off some of the creature comforts for the employees who're still sticking around? I could be wrong but is it another way Elon thinks that he could improve efficiency? Probably overthinking!
Darn! I was hoping their excess and vanity was rich enough to warrant them buying Aeron chairs. Who wants a Generation by Knoll?<p>I guess I'll just buy my own.
I would love to have a twitter bird. Only because it's the carcass of its older self. Really wish they update the logo soon.<p>To imagine this is even news. Most companies get rid of their stuff all the time in many different ways, mostly discretely and with absolutely no interest from the public, which result in the same thing. No news.<p>But Elon has learned the Trump card. Any news is attention, and the game isn't in good vs evil, moral vs immoral, tyrant vs iron man. It's being in the news, and making people debate exactly that.<p>And since hate travels broader and faster than praise, at least on social media, here we are.<p>Negativity First™
I am struggling to think how Elon is going to pay the interest on the loan he took for buying Twitter. On other hand his collateral , tsla stock, is crashing.<p>He got carried away to make this purchase during the rising tide of covid bull market.<p>I suspect this is going to severely affect both tsla and twtr
I feel like the more we learn about Twitter the more it’s just a tiny company that tried to look like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple.<p>It’s really just a trash company that had a lot of junk and a lot of people doing nothing with overly inflated salaries.