Troubles in the Twitter Acquisition

Today we talk about the Elon Musk & Twitter deal-or-no-deal (2:14). Then we get into two big pieces of Uber news today: first, over a hundred thousand leaked documents about Uber’s aggressive expansion efforts back in the early days (20:47), and second, present-day Uber under Dara is testing out geo-located ads (33:18). Finally, we’ve also got some insider dirt from Apple’s autonomous car efforts (49:20).

(0:00) Jason and Molly intro today’s show

(2:14) Elon Musk calls off the Twitter deal

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(13:58) Is Twitter a niche product?

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(20:47) The Guardian obtained 124,000 leaked internal documents from Uber’s global expansion phase under Travis

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(33:18) Uber is testing its ad business

(49:20) Apple Car project has faced repeated setbacks

(58:39) Outro + Plugs