Elon Musks Gets on Twitter's Board
Bloomberg Tech
Bloomberg
4.4 • 70 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Bloomberg's Emily Chang dives deeper into Twitter's announcement that it named Elon Musk to its board a day after it was disclosed that the Tesla CEO was the social media company’s largest shareholder, with a recent %9.2 stake
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| 0:37.0 | From the heart of where innovation, money and power collide. In Silicon Valley and beyond, this is Bloomberg Technology with Emily Chang in San Francisco and this is Bloomberg Technology coming up in the |
| 1:00.0 | next hour the plot thickens Twitter adds Elon Musk to its board just a day |
| 1:04.8 | after. Musk disclosed he is now Twitter's largest shareholder. Turns out |
| 1:10.0 | former CEO Jack Dorsey and new CEO Perraug Agarwal are in on it. |
| 1:14.0 | What does it all mean for Twitter, free speech, and the world's most public town square |
| 1:19.2 | we will uncover this story from all angles through the hour. |
| 1:23.0 | Plus, what's it like to work on a board with the Elon Musk anyway? |
| 1:26.0 | We'll be joined by former Tesla board member Steve Wesley, |
| 1:29.0 | who will share the good, the bad, and the unexpected |
| 1:32.0 | that comes with having one of the world's most controversial |
| 1:34.8 | innovators in the room. |
| 1:37.5 | And he has fashioned himself as a free speech defender but will must be good or bad for free speech. |
| 1:43.0 | Could this open the door to former President Trump being unband from the platform? |
| 1:48.0 | We'll debate. |
| 1:49.0 | But first, Twitter shares still soaring on all of this up another 2% after a 27% spike. |
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