George "Geohot" Hotz rose to prominence back in 2008 by jailbreaking iPhones and, more notably, hacking PlayStation 3 consoles. But the task at hand was much bigger when Elon Musk called him for help. The billionaire CEO reportedly offered him a multimillion long-term contract for Hotz to join Tesla, after he previously led a company called Comma AI into becoming Tesla's main rival in driver-assist technologies. Instead, Hotz offered his services to Elon on a 12-week internship at Twitter and joined the social media giant in November only to quit even before the said period of time is over.
Elon Musk has tried everything to turn around Twitter after buying it. Despite coming in to iron out some issues like non-dismissable login popups and inaccurate search features that would require familiarity with the code, George Hotz never planned on staying with Twitter for the long haul. A short stay in San Francisco where the company is headquartered and the publicity that comes with "fixing" Twitter is all he wanted.
But it turns out, that 12-week internship was 8 weeks too many for the talented software engineer. In just shy of a month of reading Twitter's code, George Hotz declared that "this ain't it" in a follow-up tweet to his announcement. He would also go on to mention one of the main reasons for his resignation was him "expecting the environment of a startup and found something very different".