2024 US Polls: Vivek Ramaswamy wants Elon Musk as adviser, says, 'he laid off 75% Twitter staff so…'
Elon Musk to be an adviser in his administration if he gets elected as the US president next year. He made these remarks on Friday at a town hall in Iowa when he was asked about whom he would want as advisers for his potential presidency, PTI reported, citing NBC News. He also admired the mass layoffs conducted by Elon Musk after taking over Twitter last year.
“I’ve enjoyed getting to know better, Elon Musk recently, I expect him to be an interesting adviser of mine because he laid off 75 percent of the employees at Twitter," Ramaswamy was quoted as saying in the report. “And then the effectiveness actually went up," he noted. A second-generation Indian-American, Ramaswamy founded Roivant Sciences in 2014 and led the largest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016, eventually culminating in successful clinical trials in multiple disease areas that led to FDA-approved products, according to his bio.
Musk, 52, is the billionaire owner of SpaceX, Tesla and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Ramaswamy has previously complimented Musk’s management of the social media company, now called X, saying he would run the government the way that Musk runs the company, as per PTI reports. “What he did at Twitter is a good example of what I want to do to the administrative state," Ramaswamy said in an interview on Fox News last week.
“Take out the 75 per cent of the dead weight cost, improve the actual experience of what it’s supposed to do." “He put an X through Twitter, I’ll put a big X through the administrative state," he added. “So, that’s where I’m at on common tactics with Elon." The workforce of X has been cut down from just under 8,000 to about 1,500 since Musk bought Twitter for USD 44 billion last fall. The billionaire — who
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