Elon Saves Humanity

Land of the Giants

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Society & Culture, Business

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A little over a year ago, Elon Musk made the world’s most expensive impulse purchase. His reasons for buying Twitter were murky at best, but in the story he tells now, he’s saving civilization. In the final episode of this season, we look at Twitter today, inside Elon’s fantasy. What happens when the world’s richest man buys the global town square - and announces that we are doing it all wrong? Hosted by Peter Kafka (@pkafka) Follow Land of the Giants on your favorite podcast app to get future seasons Follow @voxdotcom for more coverage of X/Twitter and Big Tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.0	The world loves a tragic love story.
0:47.0	Romeo and Juliet, Jack and Rose, Elon and Twitter.
0:52.0	This one started with infatuation. Elon and Twitter.
0:54.0	This one started with infatuation.
0:55.0	I think he had an adrenaline rush
0:59.0	almost like he was playing video games.
1:01.0	He would stay up late at night and compulsively and impulsively
1:06.0	tweet things and that started back 10 years ago almost.
1:11.0	Certainly in 2018 when he was going through a mental meltdown and Tesla was about
1:16.7	to go under and Amber Heard had broken up with him.
1:20.3	That's Musk's biographer Walter Isaacson, who spent two years shadowing him.
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