The Boy Scouts, like so many things, got politicized and I think their leadership made some terrible decisions that were very judgmental and not very accepting. But here's what the Boy Scouts was. And this $85 million investment, again from Mackenzie Scott, who doesn't want any credit, doesn't want to do press releases,. She's not asking that it would be called the Scott Girl Scouts. We need to restore connective tissue at a very young age where she's really become a very special donator. The question, really on everyone's mind is where is she going to store 34 million boxes of thin mints. Thin mints right up there. Those girls really know
Netflix beat estimates for Q3 and added two million subscribers. Meta has Super-App dreams for WhatsApp, and Mark Zuckerberg is ready to take on iMessage. Plus, Twitter freezes employees' stock accounts, and an activist investor grabs a significant stake in Salesforce. Friend of Pivot Ben Smith joins Kara and Scott to talk about the state of media, and the launch of his news platform, Semafor.
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