Stu: I was going through a divorce, broke and about to get washed out of a company. One of my friends called me from the car and they said, could you use a million dollars? He says he thought it was an extraordinary thing that had ever happened to him on a friendship money level. "I've tried to pay it forward on a regular basis," Stu says.
So many Elon texts. Kara and Scott discuss A-listers’ conversations with Musk, and TikTok’s wins and losses in Europe. Also, Liz Truss’s reversal on tax cuts for the wealthy, and Kim Kardashian’s crypto trouble with the SEC. Then, we’re joined by Friend of Pivot, Gabriel Debenedetti about his new book on the relationship between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
You can find Gabriel on Twitter at @gdebenedetti, and you can buy The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama here.
You can listen to Kara’s new show, On with Kara Swisher, here.
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