It’s possible they assumed he’d only be buying Twitter as a portfolio piece and things would run like normal. Not anticipating he’d be walking in the front door with a kitchen sink. The metaphor is actually more massive in hindsight. They didn’t see it coming. And they had no contingency plan, i.e., nuking Twitter HQ and it’s various servers around the world from orbit. Too late.
It’s possible they assumed he’d only be buying Twitter as a portfolio piece and things would run like normal. Not anticipating he’d be walking in the front door with a kitchen sink. The metaphor is actually more massive in hindsight. They didn’t see it coming. And they had no contingency plan, i.e., nuking Twitter HQ and it’s various servers around the world from orbit. Too late.