What Elon Musk’s Deal to Buy Twitter Means for Employees and the Bay Area

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🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

acquire the company on Monday it spawned a lot of questions in the Bay Area. Will Musk uproot Twitter from its San Francisco home, the way he moved Tesla's headquarters to Texas? If so, what would that mean for the mid-Market neighborhood where San Francisco once lured Twitter with big tax breaks in hopes of transforming the blighted area. And for employees of Twitter, many are wondering how the richest man in the world might transform their workplace, for better or worse. We’ll talk about what Twitter under Elon Musk might look like for the Bay Area and we want to hear from Twitter employees and those who live or work in mid-Market: How do you think this move will change your job or your neighborhood? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.0	Well, you just may have heard that Elon Musk is buying Twitter, which has sent the whole media world flame.
0:55.0	But Twitter is more than a global social media service.
0:58.0	It's also a deeply San Francisco company, headquartered right in the center of the city.
1:04.0	Thousands of employees past and present live here.
1:07.0	So what's the big Elon news mean for them and our metropole?
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1:17.4	That's all next. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:37.8	Today we're talking about what Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter means for the Bay Area
1:42.8	and all those Twitter employees here.
1:45.7	I have to tell you, I actually know I should have processed this news.
1:49.1	I've been writing about Twitter and Elon Musk for 15 years.
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