Elon musk is buying up a bunch of Twitter stock. The company decides to put him on the board, but he's not allowed to buy more than 15%. Musk has been tweeting about how twitter should turn its headquarters into a homeless shelter and that blue is a bad product. He was going to take tessle private at 420 dollars per share. But then elon threatened a hostile takeover for 40 billion dollars.
Elon Musk says he wants to buy Twitter, but is also making 420 jokes. Kara Swisher (who knows him) and Liz Lopatto (who doesn’t) explain whether the world should take him seriously (or care).
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Mounsey and Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Matthew Collette and Amina Al-Sadi, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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