Lol... The Twitter offices are even in a nicer area of the SF business district. I've walked around that building many times in the middle of the night and during the day and have never felt unsafe.
But earlier this month, he said he would move the company’s headquarters to Austin, citing a new Golden State law meant to protect LGBTQ+ children as the “final straw.”
Imagine being so full of hate for a highly vulnerable group of people that you base your business decisions around it.
I love when anti-progressive people "take a stand" against California by moving to Texas, and then they move to the most famously progressive city in Texas.
Austin: For those who are stupid enough to relocate based on culture war bullshit, but not stupid enough to think that you're hiring software developers and creatives out in the boonies.
Also Chevron was leaving. Fucking bye. Two shit companies not in Cali. Oh no, two of the worst companies have left, all we have left now are the thousands of startups, Google, apple, Microsoft, Uber, Lyft, and hundreds more.
Plus the only reason xitter could leave is because they laid off 90% of your staff, and tbh this is probably another silent layoff. (Uproot your families and move to Texas or you willingly quit). So yeah, moving 20 people and hiring 10 in Austin probably isn't too difficult anymore.
I don't think musk does have that much money though. He's leveraged to the eyeballs & his businesses (Tesla & Space X) are not profitable without govt subsidies while starlink had repeatedly failed to meet targets & has competitors about to cut into it's market.