Yes, we're talking about Elon

Equity

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🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, Natasha was out due to a family matter, so Alex and Amanda came together to chat through the larger Elon Musk-Twitter saga. Yes, the TechCrunch crew got together on Tuesday for a very long, fun, and relaxed Twitter Space when the news broke. However, instead of going back through all that audio to just pull out the key bits, we decided to focus ourselves down to the core elements of that team chat and produce something a bit tighter. Here's our question set: How much of an active participant will Elon really be? What does the deal mean for Twitter employees? What impact will the sale have on security, and algorithmic transparency? The free speech question What does the transaction mean for users? In case you need more, our coverage of locked code changes is here, more on the privacy question here, and our larger tick-tock can be read here. Ok, we are live on Thursday for the live show! Chat then! Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast all about the business of startups where we unpack the numbers and the new ones behind the headlines.
0:18.0	This is our Wednesday show where we niche down to a single topic, ask a question, and then unpack the rest.
0:23.2	Well, as you can already tell, I am not Natasha.
0:25.6	She had a family emergency and therefore will not be joining us.
0:28.2	She will be back. Do not worry.
0:29.9	I'm sending her all of our love and kindness.
0:31.5	I hope she's doing well.
0:32.3	Now, this is me doing this show, so it's going to be a little bit different, and I'm not going to be doing a 20-minute
0:36.8	speech, so I brought along her friend. I have Amanda Silverling with us. She's one of Tech Runches newest and greatest
0:42.3	and most interesting and most fun writers to read.
0:44.8	Amanda, welcome back.
0:46.0	Hello, that was so nice.
0:47.6	You know, Natasha once called me the most online writer at Tech Crunch on Equity and I feel like whenever I go on it's like a free compliment.
0:55.0	Yeah, the issue with that is that used to be me and now I'm no longer the most online person at TC and I don't really know how I feel about that, you know?
1:02.0	It's a badge of honor, but also not at the same time does that make sense I think that you're very online in the literal sense but in the sense of knowing weird memes from like 10 years ago that were on Tumblr like My Immortal, which we found out you do not know what it is.
1:17.2	True. Yeah. I did do a Twitter poll and my followers were more likely to know what my immortal is than not to know what it is.
1:23.8	In my defense, when we discuss the whole concept of being online, there's various online buckets.
1:28.4	And I think that the phrase that you're using it is to a very specific demographic and a point in time,
1:32.1	important cultural time on the internet, that's now kind of gone.
1:35.2	And now I'm not just rambling by the way, we're getting to a point here, which is that being online is not a good or bad thing,
1:40.6	but some people could use less time on the internet, perhaps.
1:44.0	One of those people just throwing a name out there, Amanda, just having to look kind of a brain sash here.
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