What was the true story behind Musk’s takeover of Twitter? How did Jack Dorsey see the buyout? And is X nonetheless utilized by the plenty?
Adrian was joined by know-how journalist with Bloomberg and writer of ‘Battle for the bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 billion fight for Twitter’s soul,’ Kurt Wagner.
Wagner defined that earlier than Jack Dorsey left Twitter, he started to imagine that the way in which ahead for the corporate was to take it personal. Dorsey usually referred to Musk as his, “favourite tweeter,” he was initially delighted to see Musk flip up as one in all Twitter’s largest shareholders and helped get him a position on the board.
The know-how journalist factors out within the guide that each Musk and Dorsey wished to take Twitter personal. Dorsey noticed the pressures of being a publicly traded firm as an impediment to free speech and that public corporations had been on the whim and beckon name of advertisers.
The writer was fast to say that though Dorsey and Musk agreed on wanting a place on-line the place folks might categorical themselves, he stated there’s loads of daylight between their opinions on different points reminiscent of pronouns and immigration.
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