Elon and Twitter: A love/hate story
Channels with Peter Kafka
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.4 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 1:38.4 | This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka, and that is me. |
| 1:40.0 | And today we're talking about Twitter. |
| 1:41.4 | You can guess why. |
| 1:42.6 | Okay, I'll tell you. |
| 2:05.1 | We're talking about Twitter because a couple days ago, Elon must say he wanted to buy it for $43 billion. But he didn't explain how he was going to do that, and we still don't know. But we have had enough time to digest the news, so it's a good time to weigh in. I talked to my old colleague Kurt Wagner, who covers Twitter for Bloomberg, to get us up to speed on Elon's finances and why the richest man in the world needs help to buy Twitter. |
| 2:09.9 | And most important, if there's any reason to believe that Twitter would be a better service or a better business if Elon Musk owned it. |
| 2:13.2 | And then I talked to Derek Thompson from the Atlantic, is one of my favorite writers and thinkers, |
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