Elon's Plan to Fix Twitter — With Alex Roetter

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Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Alex Roetter ran engineering at Twitter from 2014 to 2016 and is currently a general partner at Moxxie Ventures. He joins Big Technology Podcast to evaluate the product changes Elon Musk has expressed interest in, looking at whether they are feasible and could actually help the company. We go point by point through six potential changes and then discuss whether society, Twitter users, and Musk himself will be happy with the deal five years from now.

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0:00.0	From LinkedIn News, I'm Leah Smart, host of Everyday Better, an award-winning podcast dedicated to personal development.
0:06.2	Join me every week for captivating stories and research to find more fulfillment in your work and personal life.
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0:17.2	LinkedIn Presents Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuance conversation, of the tech world and beyond.
0:44.9	Well, Elon did it. He bought Twitter.
0:47.6	They accompanied and Elon agreed on a deal on Monday.
0:51.9	And here we are.
0:52.6	Elon Musk is going to be the next owner of Twitter. Can you
0:56.0	believe it? I can't. I definitely got this one wrong. I thought that he wasn't going to come up with the
1:00.3	financing. Turns out he put up the most money an individual ever has for an acquisition. And that's
1:06.8	what helped push it home. And here we go. It's an extraordinary moment led by someone
1:12.5	who's definitely out of the ordinary. You know, there's been so much talk about who Elon's working
1:17.3	with and what might have motivated him, all that stuff. But on this show, we like to talk about
1:21.9	solutions, not just the problems. And we like to talk about concrete technology issues, not just
1:26.8	the gossip, although we do like gossip,
1:29.2	and we'll get to that in the second half.
1:31.5	And to do it today, we're going to talk about the solutions that Elon's might bring to Twitter.
1:35.7	We have an amazing guest, Alex Redder is here.
1:38.0	He is the former head of Twitter engineering.
1:40.6	He ran the company's engineering division from 2014 to 2016, and he did hire the current CEO, Parag Agarwal.
1:48.5	He's currently a general partner at Moxie Ventures, and we're going to spend the day really walking through some of the solutions that Elon has talked about and talk about whether they're actually feasible.
1:58.7	So this is going to be less spitballing and more
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