ELON DID WHAT 80% OF TWITTER COULDN’T: MOVE FAST AND ACTUALLY FIX IT Just weeks after taking over Twitter, Elon asked a simple question: “Why do we need three server farms?” Engineers pushed back - they said backups, caching, all the usual reasons. Elon wasn’t convinced. He pointed to the Sacramento servers and said, “Get rid of them.” They told him it would take six months. He said six weeks. Then six days. When they said no, he fired them. The next day, on a flight to Austin with his two young engineer cousins, one joked, “Why don’t we just take the servers out ourselves?” Elon turned the plane around mid-air, landed in Sacramento, and went to the data center. Asking his bodyguard for a pocket knife, he then ripped open the floor vents and cut the cables himself. That’s how the Sacramento server farm died - and why 80% of Twitter’s old staff are gone. Source: Ascendraa, @elonmusk