The Babylon B is like a right wing version of the onion that is not actually funny. Jason Calicanis tweeting or texting him very clearly that like this was an opportunity to kind of gut the workforce and fire a bunch of people. He went even more than that. He was like, what can I do to be CEO? I will fall on my sword for you, my leash. It was amazing to see. And so obviously, as we've been discussing Elon Musk turns checkmarks into this paid service,. People know by now that it initially launches. But then it relaunches again later. The last public record revenue numbers announced by Twitter is from 2021. They generated $5 billion
Paris Marx is joined by Matt Binder to discuss Elon Musk’s first six months at Twitter and how his obsession with blue checks has decimated the company’s finances.
Matt Binder is a reporter at Mashable and the host of Scam Economy and Doomed. Follow Matt on Twitter at @MattBinder.
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