Fired Twitter exec who slept on office floor says Elon Musk has 'painful' lack of empathy

The fired Twitter executive who went viral for sleeping on the office floor last year has broken her silence on mercurial boss Elon Musk — describing him as a brilliant but cold leader with a “painful” lack of empathy. Esther Crawford, whose rapid rise and fall from Musk’s good graces drew intense scrutiny over the last year, gave her most detailed account yet of the bizarre experience in a nearly 15-minute video posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “I learned a ton from watching Elon up close — the good, the bad and the ugly. His boldness, passion and storytelling is inspiring, but his lack of process and empathy is painful,” Crawford said. “Elon has an exceptional talent for tackling hard physics-based problems but products that facilitate human connection and communication require a different type of social-emotional intelligence,” she added. Like seemingly everyone on this app I have plenty of opinions about Twitter > X and figure now is a good time to open up a bit about my experience at the company.I tweeted for years into the void for the love of it like many of you, but after selling my startup to Twitter in… pic.twitter.com/bw7CHhk0Xg—
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