SIO437: Zoë Schiffer on Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Elon Musk accidentally buying Twitter and then ruining it is a story so absurd and wild that someone should write a book about it. Lucky for us, Zoë Schiffer has! It's called Extremely Hardcore, and it's extremely good! She joins us to discuss the book.
Be sure to buy Zoë's book, Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter! You can also follow Zoë's reporting on Platformer.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries Only. This is episode 437. I'm |
| 0:19.6 | your host Thomas Smith and got a fun one today. I'll be speaking with Zoe Shiffer whose new book is |
| 0:25.6 | called Extremely Hardcore Inside Elon Musk's Twitter. Pretty sure we all saw |
| 0:31.9 | what happened going on a year and a half ago. I for one was already |
| 0:36.3 | excited to read the book as it was happening. Unfortunately, Zoe Schiffer has written the book on what the |
| 0:41.2 | F exactly happened when Elon Musk took over Twitter. The firings, the not paying people, the terrible jokes, the thinking he's a business genius constantly and maybe perhaps not being a business genius. |
| 0:55.3 | So much interesting stuff to talk about. |
| 0:57.4 | I can't wait to get to it. Before we do, I'll say, please support the show on |
| 1:00.6 | Patreon.com slash serious pod. You make episodes like this happen and you don't have to hear the stupid ads, |
| 1:07.3 | one of which is coming right now. |
| 1:09.2 | So you don't want to hear that. |
| 1:11.0 | Patreon.com slash serious pod. Skip this ad that's coming right now. |
| 1:14.3 | And thank you so much for supporting the show. |
| 1:16.5 | Zoe, thanks so much for joining us today. |
| 1:18.8 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:20.0 | Your book, Extremely Hardcore Inside Elon Musk, Twitter. |
| 1:23.0 | This is something that, I'm not even joking, |
| 1:24.7 | when this was happening, like, gosh, I can't believe it's already been, |
| 1:28.2 | wow, almost two years. |
| 1:29.4 | When it was happening, I was like already wanting the book on it, |
| 1:32.3 | you know, like, it you know just like someone please |
| 1:34.8 | already I was like I'm nowhere near this can I write the book on somebody's got to write the |
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