In a viral Twitter thread, Halli Thorleifsson is asked by Elon Musk what work he has done for the firm.

Public abuse and humiliation

Muad'Dibber
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The guy detailed his work, then Musk responds with laughing emojis. Then Musk goes on to poke fun at muscular dystrophe. Less mature than a 12 year old.

Arthur Besse
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I expect he can probably sue Musk for disclosing his medical information, among other things.

https://twitter.com/iamharaldur/status/1633082709751869440

@altair222
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painful thread.

moist-leninist
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This was pretty awful to see. The guy was just asking for confirmation of his termination. It was pretty clear he knew he was fired. Pretty straightfoward query but the asshole Musk tried to humiliate him for this. I say tried to because this guy took it gracefully.

Also this guy won a Person of the Year award: https://www.icelandreview.com/news/haraldur-thorleifsson-sweeps-person-of-the-year-awards/

When selling his company to Twitter, he accepted the price as wages so he could pay more taxes as opposed to on stocks.

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the part that depresses me is that a lot of indian entrepreneurs (since im in india and know of the culture) will see this and go “served well” due to the kind of culture that exists in here

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