[aurelius83]

Now that Elon apologized is it ok to ask why Twitter paid a design firm at least 100 million for an acquisition when presumably they already had a design department and team that was internal to Twitter?

[wmf]

The internal team was crippled by ineffective executives, so they acquired a new team... that got crippled by the same executives.

Also there's no evidence that it was $100M.

[toomuchtodo]

$100M, due on termination, which provides some color as to why the employee in question was asking Twitter HR to confirm their employment status.

https://mas.to/@fsinn/109984180905588540

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1633176820072816640

[guax]

Hiring a working, performing team is easier than making yours perform at the same level. Does it work? Few times, but the reasoning remains.

Apple acquihires tons of companies that we get to see the results after a few years.