Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, October 28th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, Area Man completes acquisition of social media

platform.

And now the fun begins.

Amazon had bad earnings, but Apple mostly didn't.

YouTube is trying to be like Tik-Tok too,

but they're giving their users options and of course the weekend long rate suggestions

here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

It's done. It's done. Elon owns Twitter. Just kidding, because of course there was no way news wouldn't happen around this

Elon Musk marked his first day in charge of Twitter by firing several top executives including CEO Perag Agrowall,

CFO Ned Seagull and policy head Vigiah Gaddy.

Now before you feel too bad for them, Bloomberg says that Agroal is eligible to receive around $50 million in sort of a parachute

payment.

Siegel around $37 million and Getty $17 million on their way out the door.

As several people have pointed out on Twitter, Agruwall is probably also on his way to the

shareholder Hall of Fame, at least the shareholder value Hall of Fame for getting this

deal done. Again, imagine what Twitter's stock price would be right now if this

deal had never happened. I checked my brokerage account this morning and it looks

like Elon Musk is about to pay me $883.48, which is why I've been holding on to the stock.

I just kind of went to the thrill of knowing

Elon Musk is paying me. Don't tell him I paid a thousand dollars for those shares

so I'm down but hey the reason Agrowall deserves his place in the Hall of Fame is because around the same time

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