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🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Is Musk's bid to take Twitter private a genuine attempt to mold the social network in his image? Or is he just going to have some fun, make some money, and walk away?
Guest: Felix Salmon, host of Slate Money and chief financial correspondent for Axios
Host: Lizzie O'Leary
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| 1:08.0 | On Thursday, I got up early. I made muffins for my son, had a couple cups of coffee, |
| 1:13.6 | and I was having a quiet domestic morning. And then at 7.23 am, Elon Musk tweeted, |
| 1:21.3 | it was one line, no punctuation even. It said, I made an offer. And there was a link to the |
| 1:28.8 | securities filing where Musk proposed buying Twitter and taking it private. So I scrapped the work |
| 1:34.7 | day I had planned and got Felix Salmon on the line. Felix is the host of Slate Money and he's the |
| 1:40.4 | chief financial correspondent at Axios. Hello, Felix Salmon. Good morning, Luzio Liri. Welcome to |
| 1:47.5 | all Elon all the time. We thought we could get away from him, but we were wrong. |
| 1:55.3 | Our show last Friday was all about Elon Musk buying a roughly 9% stake in Twitter, |
| 2:00.8 | and maybe joining the company's board. After that show aired, Twitter CEO Pura Gograwal |
| 2:06.8 | announced in a note to his employees that no, Musk would not be joining the board after all. |
| 2:11.9 | The note ended by saying there will be distractions ahead, but our goals and priorities remain unchanged. |
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