If you ever wanted to own a piece of Twitter’s headquarters, the company is auctioning off dozens of items and supplies from its San Francisco office.
Twitter is cleaning house and looking to unload things like a big bird statue from the web and a giant “@” sculpture. Among the less interesting items are a projector, iMac screens and desks. There are also several espresso machines and an electric bike charging station.
The online auction starts Jan. 17 and ends the following day, said Heritage Global Partners, the company facilitating the sale. Starting bids for all items range from $25 to $50.
After Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, the billionaire owner took a series of cost-cutting measures. He laid off about half of the company’s employees, resulting in a lawsuit from an ex-employee group claiming that the mass layoffs involved various labor rights violations.
“Twitter has seen a huge drop in revenue due to activist groups putting pressure on advertisers, although nothing has changed with content moderation and we’ve done everything we can to appease activists,” Musk said in a Nov. 4 tweet.
But HGP chairman Nick Dove said in an interview with Fortune that anyone who thinks the auction is part of preserving finances is an “idiot.”
“We don’t determine what assets a company doesn’t need,” Dove told CNN. “Just as a realtor does not determine which houses or buildings his client would need to sell.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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