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🗓️ 7 September 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Tim Armstrong might be on his way out of Oath, Alex Jones is permanently off of Twitter, a Cambridge Analytica figure is officially no longer a Facebook employee, Elon Musk smokes a blunt and the weekend longreads suggestions! Links:Verizon’s Internet Boss Tim Armstrong in Talks to Leave (WSJ)Tim Armstrong is headed out of Verizon. What happens to the $9 billion content company he is leaving behind? (Recode)Charlie Warzel Twitter ThreadHOW THAT MAGICAL JACK DORSEY–ALEX JONES PHOTO HAPPENED (Wired)A Facebook scientist tied to Cambridge Analytica has quietly left Facebook (Fast Company)Weed, whiskey, Tesla and a flamethrower: Elon Musk meets Joe Rogan (CNN Tech)Tesla Erupts in Chaos After Senior Execs Leave, Musk Tokes Up (Bloomberg) The Betterment Weekend Longreads:Inside the World of Eddy Cue, Apple’s Services Chief (The Information)Bezos Unbound: Exclusive Interview With The Amazon Founder On What He Plans To Conquer Next (Forbes)The Super Rich of Silicon Valley Have a Doomsday Escape Plan (Bloomberg)What went wrong at Social Capital (Axios)How Android Pie’s Adaptive Battery and Adaptive Brightness work (Venture Beat)The man who won the lottery 14 times (The Hustle) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, September 7th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.0	Today, Tim Armstrong might be on his way out of both.
0:14.0	Alex Jones is permanently off of Twitter.
0:18.0	A Cambridge Analytica figure is officially no longer a Facebook employee.
0:22.0	Elon Musk smokes a blunt, and the weekend long reads suggestions.
0:27.0	Here's what you missed in a crazy day in the world of tech.
0:41.0	This is a weird day where we're going to have to talk a lot about personnel in the tech industry, especially tech executives.
0:43.0	There are possible departures, their actual departures,
0:46.0	they're seemingly getting high on podcasts.
0:49.0	The first instance of this comes from the Wall Street Journal
0:52.0	and the rumors they are hearing and
0:54.2	reporting on that Tim Armstrong head of oath which is Verizon's media and
0:58.5	advertising business is in talks to leave the company.
1:03.0	Quick history lesson here.
1:05.0	Tim Armstrong is an internet advertising O.G.
1:08.0	He was at Starwave when they brought you E-SPN.com
1:12.0	and the Go Network. Disney bought Starwave, so he did some early online
1:16.7	advertising efforts there throughout the dot-com era. Then in the year 2000, he joined Google
1:22.0	as its US sales chief and as Google... the year
1:25.0	he joined Google as its US sales chief and as Google took its tentative first steps into
1:27.0	advertising.
1:28.0	He's credited with convincing Google to make their ads self-serve rather than relying
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