Twitter leadership and board really walked away from this with the winning hand didn’t they.

The first fired employees too, imo. If it all goes up in flames those that remain might get to keep their laptop.

My Dad told me a story from the dot-com bust:

To save money at the time he drove a van for a carpool service (he could use it for free as a result). A lot of the guys on his van were in tech.

When the first rounds of layoffs hit, guys would get on at the end of the day and they would talk about their severance. The first question in response to “I got laid off” was “What’s your severance?”

At one point deep into 2002, he remembered a change. Now guys were getting on the van with all their stuff in a box. He played the game, even though he wasn’t in tech, and asked one of the guys with a box, “What’s your severance?”

He just got a flat look in response.