Twitter founder Jack Dorsey apologized this Saturday to the social network’s employees after the layoff of almost half of the workforce that its new owner, Elon Musk, has carried out this week and has claimed to be responsible for this situation for «growing the size of the company too fast».
Dorsey has regretted having done so, after acknowledging that he is aware that many of the workers and people fired in recent days are angry with their former boss.
«I realize that many are angry with me. I am responsible for why everyone is in this situation: I grew the size of the company too fast. I apologize for that,» he wrote on his profile.
He has also assured that Twitter people of the present and future are «strong and resilient» and that because of this «they will always find a way, no matter how difficult the moment is.» «I am grateful and love everyone who has ever worked at Twitter. I don’t expect it to be mutual right now…or ever…and I understand that,» he concluded at the end of the post.
When asked in the comments if he still trusted the entrepreneur for the future of the social network or if he was disappointed with Musk’s first decisions at the helm of Twitter, he rescued a tweet from April in which he expressed that he did not believe anyone should «own or manage the social network.»
«In principle, I don’t think anyone should own or manage Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. However, to solve the problem of it being a company, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to spread the light of awareness,» he wrote at the time.
Dorsey resigned as CEO in November 2021 and stepped down from the board in May this year.
