On Saturday, December 10, Musk erupted with frustration. Twitter was still hemorrhaging money and he decided to take the budget into his own hands. He summoned workers in San Francisco to the Caracara conference room at headquarters and insisted that finance executives and team leads from around the world dial in on a conference line. Then he opened up a spreadsheet that documented Twitter’s total expenditures and began to read it, line by line. As he ticked through different parts of the business, Musk demanded that the employees responsible for the spending explain their budgets to him. If
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