EP 11: Elon Musk Buys 9.2% of Twitter, A Deep Dive Into Twitter History, The End of Fast, and Nikita's Best Man Speech

(00:39) - Elon Musk buys 9.2% of Twitter and species he only wants “the good parts”

(11:54) - History of Twitter runs deep and sometimes stupid

(16:40) - Twitter’s current role/issues, and there are a lot

(35:54) - Fast shuts down and the schadenfreude gets intense

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Music: Griff Lawson


Reference Links:

CNBC – Elon Musk joins twitter’s board
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/05/elon-musk-to-join-twitters-board-of-directors.html

https://www.piratewires.com/p/king-shit

Parag Agrawal – Elon Musk Tweet
https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1511320953598357505?s=20&t=4a0XIu0pgG4b2eYOWfKsig

Jack Dorsey – Elon Musk Tweet
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1511329369473564677

Elon Musk – Tweet about joining board
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1511322655609303043?s=20&t=teLPQd78_3JAKSmFcxVtqg

The Information – Kate Clark article on Fast
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/live-fast-die-young-behind-the-fall-of-a-one-click-wonder

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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.

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