According to the Financial Times, Omed Afsar joined Twitter last year.
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- Twitter employees nicknamed a Tesla exec “The Elon Whisperer” because of his ability to read Elon Musk’s mood.
- Oded Afshar, a Tesla executive, joined Twitter late last year, according to the Financial Times.
- The executives are reportedly helping Musk with “the biggest, toughest issues at the company.”
Twitter employees have reportedly nicknamed a Tesla executive at the company “The Elon Whisperer” because of his ability to read the CEO’s mood.
Omed Afshar, who once headed Tesla’s Gigafactory in Austin, joined Twitter last year and is part of Elon Musk’s tight inner circle, according to the Financial Times.
The executives are helping Musk with “the biggest, toughest issues at the company,” according to the report. Two unnamed sources told the FT that it is negotiating tangled cloud spending contracts with Amazon and Google. According to The Information, Musk’s company is at least $70 million behind on a five-year contract it signed with Amazon Web Services in 2020.
Representatives for Twitter did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
When Musk first acquired the company in October for $44 billion, he laid off nearly half of Twitter’s employees, including company executives.
Since then, Twitter’s culture has deteriorated and people inside company headquarters say the billionaire has become more stressed. Many engineers are constantly working 80,hours weeks and pulling “all-nighters” to meet Musk’s demands, Insider’s Kali Hayes reported.
In the company’s latest round of layoffs, Musk fired Esther Crawford, one of his most loyal lieutenants, who went viral last year after an employee caught sleeping on the floor of Twitter headquarters amid Musk’s hardline work culture rollout. Had shared a picture of him.
Since then, Twitter has suffered several outages, including a glitch in early February that prevented users from posting. Experts previously told Insider that Twitter could collapse or experience technical problems due to the staff shortage.
Afshar is not the only person on whom Kasturi currently relies.
Steve Davis, his longtime colleague and boss of Musk’s Boring Company, has also been working with Twitter for the past few months to cut costs at Musk’s request. Like Afker, Davis is also part of Musk’s tight inner circle and is rumored to be next in line to become CEO of Twitter once Musk steps down.