Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and the future — live at TED2022

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this unedited conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Elon Musk digs into the recent news around his bid to purchase Twitter and gets honest about the biggest regret of his career, how his brain works, the future he envisions for the world and a lot more. (Recorded April 14, 2022)

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily.
0:05.6	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:07.4	What's on Elon Musk's mind?
0:09.7	In this conversation with head of Ted Chris Anderson from TED 2022,
0:14.1	the entrepreneur digs into recent news around Twitter,
0:17.5	how his brain works, and the future he envisions for the world.
0:21.3	If you want even more Elon, head over to the TED interview podcast, where he sat down with
0:26.2	Chris just last week at the new Tesla Gigafactory in Texas to discuss some of the radical
0:31.5	innovations he's working on, including an intelligent humanoid robot, SpaceX's Starship, and Neurrelink's brain machine interfaces.
0:43.0	So, Elon, a few hours ago, you made an offer to buy Twitter.
0:53.2	Why?
0:58.0	Yeah. Why? How'd you know?
1:02.0	Little bird tweeted in my ear or something, I don't know.
1:06.0	By the way, have you seen the movie TED about the bear?
1:08.0	I have. I have a good have. It's a good movie.
1:12.7	I'll mention that here.
1:16.3	So, yeah, yeah.
1:20.3	Was there a question?
1:22.0	Why make that offer?
1:23.6	Oh, so, well, I think it's very important for there to be an inclusive arena for free speech, where all, so, yeah.
1:40.0	Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square.
1:44.0	So it's just really important that people have both the reality and the perception that they're able to speak freely within the bounds of the law.
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