Flipping the Bird: Elon vs Twitter | Assassination Coordinates | 5

Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Elon goes on a banning spree. And even his most ardent supporters find themselves asking, is the battle over Twitter worth it?

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0:00.0	This is Business Wars Flipping the Bird.
0:02.6	Episodes will drop Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for the next two weeks.
0:06.7	Wondery Plus subscribers can binge the entire season of Business Wars Flipping the Bird right now.
0:12.3	Start your free trial in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:15.9	Wondry. Elon Musk had sent Twitter employees an email with an ultimatum,
0:32.4	My Extremely Hardcore Way, or the Highway.
0:37.3	Many Twitter employees had feared this message, this culture from
0:40.8	the very beginning. And now they had just till the end of the day tomorrow to decide, do I stay,
0:47.6	or do I go? The vast majority of people were like, what the hell is he thinking? What is he
0:54.1	talking about?
0:55.3	Zoe Schiffer covers Twitter for Platformer.
0:57.8	If you're trying to rally the troops, to me this is just so not the way to do it.
1:04.6	The email quickly caused chaos. Beyond the alarming message, it contained a link to a Google
1:10.2	form, which gave only one option.
1:13.2	Yes, I'm in.
1:15.3	Twitter employees wondered if the email was even real, or if it was spam.
1:20.2	And then the transition team, the people that Twitter employees called the goons, followed up,
1:25.5	and were like, no, this is legit.
1:26.8	Like, please click the link if you want to stay. And so it was kind of mayhem internally.
1:32.7	A lot of employees didn't want to stay.
1:35.7	A whole bunch of people had not signed the email and they started trying to shut off accounts.
1:39.1	And they realized that like a lot of people who they really needed at the company were effectively resigning.
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