The buzz out of the Code Conference this week is, naturally, all about the disastrous performance of X / Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, who closed out the two-day affair in spectacular fashion. Vox’s Peter Kafka, who has been going to the conference since it started in 2008, called it “the weirdest session I’ve ever seen.” If I had to sum up the vibe as everyone trickled off to dinner afterward, it would be stunned disbelief. As for Yaccarino, she immediately fled the premises with her six-person security detail.

      • Sinnerman
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        101 year ago

        Indeed, I have little respect for advertisers and I disagree with her politics. But I wouldn’t say I have no sympathy, and I offered a plausible explanation on why she might have taken the job.

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          I mean, you’re welcome to your own judgment regarding how much sympathy to have, but she chased the job knowing full well why the job needed to be filled, so I have no sympathy when she makes herself look like an idiot for Elon. She resigned from NBCUniversal the same day her Twitter position was announced. She didn’t actually need a new job, but she made a choice to take this one and all the bullshit that comes with it.

          edit: it’s possible she did want a new job, but I’m certain she could have held out for something better than this.

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              [2 mins 15 sec] Yaccarino: “I work at X, he worked at Twitter, X is a new company.”

              [3 mins 16 sec] Yaccarino: “The team at Twitter is fantastic”

              At least she lasted 1 whole minute before that embarassing contradiction. I can’t do another 38 minutes of watching that mess though, too painful right from the start.

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              11 year ago

              oh yeah, it’s bad, if taking a position with Musk didn’t ding her reputation, that showing certainly did.

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                Wasn’t sure I’d listen to this whole thing but half way threw it starts to really get weird. Damn, kind of feel bad for her…it most be hell working for Elon.

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      There’s risky, and then there’s walking into a blender. This tends towards the latter.