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SMN: The Crummy Behavior of Under-The-Radar Tech CEOs

Some More News

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News, Comedy, Talk Radio, Society & Culture

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Hi. In today's episode, we look at some tech CEOs who may not make the headlines as much as your Musks and Zuckersberg, but who nonetheless have a huge (negative) impact on our society with their anti-worker, privacy-shattering decisions. Executive Producer - Katy Stoll Hosted by Cody Johnston Directed by Will Gordh Written by Katie Goldin Edited by John Conway Produced by Jonathan Harris Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales Graphics by Clint DeNisco Head Writer - David Christopher Bell Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11UfnIW-cUtYUR118HEEs4xzwpae9WvxSZGEeGOCs2CA/edit Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenews Get hardware that fits your business. Take payments by smartphone, transform your tablet into a point-of-sale system, or use Shopify’s POS Go mobile device. Sign up for a $1/month trial period at https://shopify.com/morenews (all lowercase)

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0:00.0

Uh, hello, hello news. Welcome to more. Uh, some of it. I'm news Cody Grimmel and Johnston. Uh, just hang on a second. Sorry then. I know it's totes on

0:14.4

professional. I'm just I'm writing a Primo sheet. You know, they're called. Sheets now Zeets get Zeets or something cares. I mean, I love it, but it's

0:24.6

whatever. Anyways, uh, Hitler was not a nice guy. And hashtag TIO. And all right. There. I shooted. I've been permanently suspended from X jitter. It's

0:47.9

to shitter, shitter, shitter, shitter. I don't know. Well, shucks with an X and darn with a needless apostrophe. I guess I won't do another deep dive into every tiny personal fault Elon Musk insists on making our problem, which sucks because they're easy to write. They're plentiful. He's got that new hat thing. God, oh, every single day. The man has an abundance of culture ruining personal problems. But if Musk won't let me shoot my shot, then I guess I'll talk about all the other guys instead.

1:17.9

Did you know there are other garbage tech CEOs? I just learned about this. Apparently there's a bunch of terrible rich guys who hang out behind the media circus and don't go out of their way to constantly warn everyone that they should not be trusted. Like a bunch of Delafa Soruses with golden parachutes, which is my movie idea back off. Operation Delafa Soruses drop. But first, I guess we got to address the, um, guys,

1:48.5

guys, I'm not saying Elon font in the room.

1:57.4

Terrible tech CEOs that aren't desperate for your attention.

2:01.8

I said it didn't I? You win, God.

2:05.0

For now. Okay, so here's some more news. Elon is good at getting the bad kind of attention, which is why we've already talked about him on the show before. Here, here, here, and also here.

2:16.1

Specifically, he's good at doing dumb and reckless stunts that get him heckled to heck. Like how he had a giant strobe ex-install that Twitter HQ and then had to take it down.

2:26.6

Or how he recently reinstated an account that posted child sexual abuse imagery, presumably because it has a ton of followers and is conservative. And while I don't mean to diminish the more dangerous things he said and done when it comes to Twitter, the anti-semitism and attack of free speech, for example,

2:42.0

too often do we overlook other aspects of Elon Musk? For example, did you know that along with him being a rich dork who is desperate for attention? Elon Musk is also a terrible CEO.

2:53.1

It's true. Tesla is actually built on the foundation of workplace mistreatment and civil rights abuses and safety violations.

3:00.5

Musk has illegally fired union organizers and threatened to pull stock options for any workers who try to join them.

3:06.8

Tesla has also had more ocean of safety violations than any other US automaker. Even the explode-o-crash-o-matic, which is a car I made up in a dream about writing a comic book that sold really well and was made into five award-winning films.

3:20.9

Musk also likes to go... Death Con 3 on whistleblowers. In one case, fabricating a reason to call the cops on an employee who spoke to a journalist.

3:31.2

Meanwhile, SpaceX has had a few little pratfalls of its own and, of course, by pratfall, I mean, spaceships going explode-o-crash-o-matic in ways that experts say Musk should have easily predicted and avoided.

3:43.9

In one case, the FAA refused to grant SpaceX permission to launch, so SpaceX, therefore...

3:51.4

They launched anyway, but don't worry.

3:54.6

The rocket exploded.

3:56.2

But it's hard to focus on every little labor violation or exploding space ship when there's constantly big, goofy stories about Elon and the news.

4:04.7

And that might be his media superpower. He's like a magician in the child's birthday party, distracting you with a spray of colorful scarves while he smacks one of the kids around in his other hand.

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