Andrew Collins

Cricket and Football fan. Occasionally a poor golfer.

[Jonny Cooper @JRCooper26]

James Milner retiring means 2026-27 will be the first English top-flight season since 1956-57 that will not feature a single player who played under Sir Bobby Robson.

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@financefraz @RaminNasibov Agreed. Best football game ever. I broke so many joysticks

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@sophielouisecc Also can't really call it a "cap" when most companies charge that amount anyway

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Twitter had 7,500 employees when Musk bought it in 2022. X's product team today is 30 people.

That setup is what Benji is talking about: a flat structure with engineers running their own work, almost no managers, and most people reporting directly to Elon. Once a week, Musk runs a review with every engineer at X, where each one presents one or two slides on what they shipped that week. The same approach runs through SpaceX, Tesla, and now xAI.

Elon has been pushing this style since 2010, when he emailed every SpaceX engineer with the subject line "Acronyms Seriously Suck." Anyone who kept making them up would face drastic action. Made-up jargon, he wrote, made new hires sit silently in meetings rather than ask what something meant.

In 2018 he emailed every Tesla employee with a list of productivity rules. Cut frequent meetings unless absolutely necessary. Walk out the moment you stop adding value. Communication should travel directly to whoever can solve the problem, regardless of their place in the org chart. And any manager who tries to enforce a chain of command "will soon find themselves working elsewhere."

The output backs the philosophy. xAI started with 11 researchers in March 2023. By early 2026 investors had put another $20 billion into the company at a $230 billion valuation. Its supercomputer in Memphis ended last year with over a million top-end Nvidia chips, the kind used to train ChatGPT and most other AI models, making it the largest cluster of its kind on Earth.

SpaceX flew 165 rockets in 2025, roughly one every other day, doing 85% of all American orbital launches by itself. The company is worth $800 billion right now, with a stock market debut in 2026 expected to value it at a trillion dollars or more. Tesla is worth $1.3 trillion and pulls in $95 billion in yearly sales.

That same 30-person product team built and runs the X subscription business, which hit $1 billion in annual revenue in February. Nikita Bier runs product. He hires operators the way you would assemble a small special forces team. About six weeks before this tweet, Bier hired Benji from a couple of crypto companies. Bier said he had been tracking Benji's work for years and called one of his past products among the best-designed he had seen. Benji is describing what happens when one CEO writes emails for sixteen years to remove anything that gets between the people doing the work and the work itself.

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@LNER 0858 Newcastle to York. Dont know his name, but conductor (wearing glasses) is lovely. Such a nice man. Gave my daughter an activity pack and shes loving her first trip on a "big train"!

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@dannykellywords Get well soon Danny. Been a fan since the Under The Moon days. Broadcasting legend and a great bloke

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@richardosman Hi Richard, my Mam is a huge fan of House of Games as well as a huge fan of yours. She'd love the salt and pepper set for her 70th birthday this year, but they aren't on sale. Is there any way I could possibly buy one from the show/donate to charity please?

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@LidlGB hi, we bought this wine and the cork disintegrated as soon as we put the corkscrew in and is now undrinkable

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@_laurennn92 Agreed. It's dangerous. Every time I join the A1 south from the A19 I always end up getting stuck behind some idiot trundling down the slip road at 30mph. Infuriating

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@LidlGB Hi, this looks a bit suspect so I'm going to have to throw this individual packet away. Can I please have a refund

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@Genetics_CC Hi, definitely interested in playing this season if I can. Just moved to Rowlands Gill and used to play for Monkseaton (and Kings on some Sundays) and will hopefully playing Saturdays at Lintz this coming season

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@LidlGB there is a distinct lack of cheese on this pizza 😢

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@MrSugden2 The Charlatans

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@DurhamCricket hi, do you know if/when these will be back in stock please?

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@benonwine Liar liar

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@Screwfix hi, I've placed a click and collect order, but my wife is going to collect it. The email says she'll need the payment card I used but she won't have it. Can she still collect it?

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@AXS_UK Hi, my tickets for Paul Gascoigne on Wednesday 14th are not showing in my app. It just says "Looking for your ticket? They aren't available in the app because you chose a different delivery method". I didn't. The only option was the app. Please help

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@nationaltrust how can I change my direct date? I want to change it but when I rang customer services I was told that's not possible? Every other organisation allows you to change a DD date, how can you not?

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@Keir_Starmer They'll all be turning in their graves seeing how our freedom and values have been thrown away by your government

[Andrew Collins @andywcollins]

@sammywoodhouse1 It must be very slow and very painful