3/2/2024 0 Comments Chris mims twitter elon muskThere's something a little parallel going on. It does seem from afar, like, an object lesson in the perils of being rich, powerful and famous.Ĭhris Hayes: You know, I know he's friends with Kanye and he has joked about it. Brian Chesky takes feedback really well, others don't so much.Ĭhris Hayes: Yes. And they like to not hear people who disagree with them more and more. He was lovely to start with, he was lovely at the end.Īnd so, a lot of what happens, a lot of what they're like becomes bigger or more cartoonish as they get richer. Reid Hoffman is lovely, I would say, continues to be. Like, you know, Mark Cuban is still the same guy, a great guy. You got to know all of these entrepreneurs at the time. There's Max Levchin Reid Hoffman, who is now very active in democratic politics David Sachs, who's now working at Twitter, apparently. There was Thiel who was kind of a weird sort of dark figure of Silicon Valley. Kara Swisher: Well, at the time, he was at least more interesting than other people that were there. Elon and some other founders had X.com.Ĭhris Hayes: How would you describe Elon? And that's really where it started for him getting the money to be able to do what he's doing now.Ĭhris Hayes:, which was also Peter Thiel. And then X.com, which merged later with PayPal, very big competitor of PayPal, and then they sold it off. ![]() I mean, I've known him for a very long time when he had, well, Zip2 was one of his companies and then he got kicked out of that, I think. Kara Swisher: Well, that's a little reductive. You have probably heard that Elon Musk, the world's arguably richest man, depends on the valuation of his various enterprises on a given day, purchased Twitter and then is just acting like a complete maniac over there in a way that, I think, everyone is like, what is going on? It's not something I'm proud of, but it is what it is. Why is this happening? So, as I think regular listeners of the podcast know, I am a very obsessive, addicted user of Twitter. It's been going on and I kind of, like, read about it, and then I'm like, what the hell is going on over there? And as -Ĭhris Hayes: Exactly. Well, today is the day that we are going to fully embrace the name of this podcast, which originated out of a desire by myself to sometimes just want to have a conversation where I talk to someone who's super knowledgeable about why something is happening, particularly something that I haven't gotten to cover on the show and has been somewhat of the periphery of my attention. "Why Is This Happening?" with me, your host, Chris Hayes. That's what you're really seeking out.Ĭhris Hayes: Hello, and welcome. And so, you want a place where you can debate someone you don't agree with, then there's plenty in a civil way and have a really great conversation. And, in the case of Twitter, it's to send it into a little more chaos because the owner is a little chaotic. Kara Swisher: What has to happen is there's got to be people with a difference of opinion.
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