Yesterday, a movie clip popped up on my YouTube feed. It’s a scene from Moneyball (book, movie), starring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, general manager of Major League Baseball’s Oakland A’s from 1997–2016.
Moneyball propelled baseball analytics into the mainstream, where Beane used statistics to build winning teams against organizations with much larger budgets. It’s baseball’s David vs. Goliath story. Highly recommended.
Go ahead and watch the clip. It’s only 3 minutes long. How does it relate to Elon Musk? I’ll break it down for you after.
Twitterball
Well, baseball can hate him.
One of the great things about money is it buys a lot of things.
One of which is luxury to disregard what baseball likes, doesn’t like, what baseball thinks, doesn’t think
Like him or not, Elon Musk has a lot of money. With Twitter, he can buy it and run it with disregard to what the media likes, doesn’t like, what the media thinks, doesn’t think. Sorry, that incudes you too.