Emergency Podcast: Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter — With Ranjan Roy

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Ranjan Roy is the co-author of Margins, a Substack newsletter about the financial markets. He joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Elon Musk's bid to buy Twitter and its implications. Join us for this 'emergency' episode where we discuss whether Musk will improve the service, whether he can pull it off, and why he's making the move.

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1:24.9	conversation, of the tech world and beyond.
1:29.0	Elon Musk has made an offer to buy Twitter trying to buy it at $54.20 a share bringing to around $43 billion in total
1:36.8	value. That would be quite a premium over what it's trading at today, although much less than what
1:41.9	it was just a few months ago, we are going to do a emergency
1:46.2	and emergency podcast for you this afternoon. And our guest today is none other than Ron John
1:51.9	Roy. He is the author of Margins on Substack. Go follow him there. Ron John, welcome to the show.
1:58.2	What a day. What a week. What a day.
2:05.3	So we're going to get into all the financial stuff as we go on in the show.
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