Flipping the Bird: Elon vs Twitter | Maximum Amazing | 1
Business Wars
Wondery
4.6 • 13.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Twitter is at a crossroads. Its founder, Jack Dorsey, has stepped down from his role as CEO. The social media heavyweight is also under fire for alleged bias, censorship, and the roving army of bot accounts wreaking havoc on the site. In this moment of crisis, the only would-be savior to step up is also one of Twitter’s harshest critics: Elon Musk.
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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. |
| 0:16.3 | When Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in 2022. |
| 0:22.5 | It was a seismic event. |
| 0:28.3 | But nearly three years later, it feels like the purchase might have changed the world forever. |
| 0:33.9 | This is Business Wars flipping the bird, a behind-the-scenes look at the Twitter sale, and its immediate impact on the way we communicate. |
| 0:51.9 | Thank you. Twitter sale and its immediate impact on the way we communicate. This was not the place where you'd expect to find the CEO of one of the biggest tech companies on the planet. |
| 1:00.0 | Sure was in San Jose, California, the heart of Silicon Valley, and Brett Taylor looked apart with his confident smile and receding hairline. |
| 1:10.0 | Brett was the co-CEO of Salesforce, and before that, he was an ex-Google and Facebook employee |
| 1:15.8 | and a graduate of Stanford. |
| 1:18.3 | But on this evening, March 31, 2022, Brett found himself in an unexpected location, waiting |
| 1:26.4 | for an unexpected guest. |
| 1:28.3 | San Jose is the heart of the tech industry, filled with sterile corporate architecture, palm trees, and strip malls. |
| 1:36.3 | Deals often get done in glass panel conference rooms or in classic Silicon Valley restaurants like Bucks or Madeiras. |
| 1:45.9 | But not today. |
| 1:51.8 | Brett whipped out his phone and fired off a text to two business associates. |
| 1:55.6 | This wins for the weirdest place I've had a meeting recently. |
| 1:58.6 | I think they were looking for an Airbnb near the airport. |
| 2:00.7 | There are tractors and donkeys. |
| 2:03.7 | He threw in an emoji of a man shrugging. |
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