A Twitter Founder on Elon, Trump, and the Edit Button

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jon is joined by Ev Williams, Co-Founder and former CEO of Twitter. The two discuss Twitter’s early years, including the design decisions behind some of the app’s most important features. They dive into the promise of Twitter and attempt to make sense of what’s changed. Ev also talks about Twitter’s newest board member and largest shareholder, Elon Musk, and if Donald Trump should be allowed back on. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email [email protected] and include the name of the podcast.

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0:00.0	What was your reaction to Elon becoming not only a passive investor, but now a seemingly
0:05.9	very active investor who's on the board?
0:09.7	I think it's interesting.
0:11.2	I'm very impressed with what Elon has done in the world and his approach to PR and tweeting
0:18.4	everything else.
0:19.4	He's fascinating.
0:20.4	I'm fascinated like anyone else.
0:24.2	I appreciate what he's doing with Tesla, have a Tesla, hope to go to Mars someday.
0:30.9	Is he good for Twitter?
0:32.8	I don't know.
0:33.8	It'll make the board maybe it's more interesting.
0:36.0	Who knows how Elon even has time to pay attention to Twitter and everything else?
0:41.0	Is it a fascinating, fancy, we'll see.
0:44.6	I'm John Favreau.
0:45.7	Welcome to Offline.
0:49.0	Hey everyone, my guest today is Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter and its former
0:53.8	chairman and CEO.
0:56.1	Every week I conclude this introduction with a call to action asking for your comments
1:00.2	and complaints and every week we open the Offline inbox and see a familiar message.
1:06.3	John talks about Twitter too much.
1:08.8	Absolutely right, no argument for me on that, but there are a few reasons I talk about
1:13.1	Twitter so much.
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