Elon offers to take $TWTR private at $43B + Autonomous car drives away from police | E1435

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

All news show. First, Jason and Molly debrief after their Worldcoin interview (2:37). Next, they discuss Elon Musk's take-private offer for Twitter at $43B (08:50), the highlights from Elon's TED interview (15:33), and more (24:53). In a We Live in the Future segment, we react to a viral video of police pulling over self-driving Cruise car (58:38).

(00:00) Jason and Molly intro today’s Elon/Twitter packed news day
(02:37) Discussing Worldcoin and dictating narratives
(08:50) Elon offers to purchase all outstanding shares of Twitter and take the company private, a deal worth $43B
(14:01) LinkedIn Marketing - Get a $100 LinkedIn ad credit at https://linkedin.com/thisweekinstartups
(15:33) Elon Musk speaks at TED on 4/14/22 about open-sourcing the Twitter algorithm
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(24:53) Elon on increasing the trust in Twitter as a public platform
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(34:04) Are Elon’s claims about Twitter credible?
(58:38) WLITF: Vid of police pulling over self-driving Cruise car goes viral

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0:00.0	Okay, everybody. I'm back. I'm sorry. I had a stomach virus. I lost five pounds. Yes. I'm looking
0:05.2	shfelt. I hit my weight loss goals. But we got a big news for today. Big news in the world of
0:11.5	Twitter. We do. We have quite the show Elon Musk announced that he has put in an offer to buy
0:17.9	Twitter and take it private this morning. This is where I should caveat that we are discussing this
0:21.6	as though he means it, which is one thing we should note. And we're going to break all of that
0:27.8	down. The five four twenty offer has been given $54 and 20 cents. I might even up that offer,
0:33.7	Molly, to five four two oh sixty nine. I might increase it by just a fraction of a penny there.
0:40.4	I'm frankly astonished that that edit needed to be made. Yes. And yeah.
0:47.6	We have a long conversation about this, about fixing Twitter, about product improvements,
0:53.2	financial incentives, what changes Elon could make and more. And then we have everybody's favorite
0:59.3	segment. We live in the future segment where we're going to talk about the cruise autonomous
1:05.6	car that appeared to go slightly rogue last week when it was pulled over by the police. We're
1:10.2	going to break that video down a little bit. It's like a chaser, if you will. It's a little bit
1:13.8	of a chaser. We live in the future. This is like your peak into your dystopian hilarious AI versus
1:22.8	the police. One of many to come soon. I'm sure. Yeah. When AI is asked to pull over. It's going
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