Released: Mar 11, 2024
by Small Company Radio Show
In Small Company News
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When Elon Musk initially revealed his offer to purchase Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, the billionaire tech magnate thought that his ownership of the business would bring back totally free speech to the masses, and even assist to protect humankind. (Seriously, this is what was stated!) Practically right away, whatever went sideways.
On The Small Company Radio Show today, I talked to Bloomberg reporter Kurt Wagner who utilizes his years of understanding and experience covering social networks to compose the supreme book on the story of Twitter. In “Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter’s Soul”. Kurt provides a deeply reported, expert expedition into the essential minutes and choices that caused Musk’s $44 billion Twitter purchase– and the legal and cultural mayhem that quickly followed.
In an interview, we talked about:
- Why Did Elon Musk purchase Twitter?
- Why did he believe he could “bring back totally free speech and protect humankind”?
- Why Jack Dorsey’s relationship with Elon Musk is an essential factor that the Twitter offer got done.
- How Twitter got a lot power over worldwide speech throughout D