Life Under Musk: Two Twitter Employees Speak Out

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🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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“We cross our fingers and hope to make it through another day.” Twitter hasn’t spoken publicly since Elon Musk bought the company a week ago. But inside, employees describe a mood of fear, chaos, stress and bizarre requests to print out code.

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0:00.0	Uh, so Kevin, I've noticed something about a lot of the people running Twitter right now.
0:06.2	What would that be?
0:07.4	Okay.
0:08.4	So you know, David Sacks, Jason Callacannis, Riram, Krishnan have all been sort of
0:13.3	volunteered into this war room to help Elon run the company.
0:16.8	Right.
0:17.8	They are members of the Elon Musk Twitter brain trust.
0:19.8	And if you've heard their names before, maybe it's because they're venture capitalists,
0:24.6	they're sort of known in that field, but they're also something else.
0:28.0	They're podcasters.
0:29.0	And that means that for the first time in history, we have a social network that's effectively
0:35.5	being run by podcasters.
0:37.6	This is our moment.
0:38.9	This is our opening.
0:40.3	I think if we, the deal is if we spend three weeks at the top of the tech podcast charts,
0:45.0	we officially run Twitter.
0:46.0	That's right.
0:47.0	Is that how this works?
0:48.0	Yes.
0:49.0	Every reporter's dream to run Twitter.
1:01.1	I'm Kevin Ruse, tech columnist for the New York Times.
1:03.2	And I'm Casey Newton from Platformer.
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