Twitter is no more. From the ashes rises X, Elon Musk’s cringely-named attempt to actualise one of his long term goals: building an everything app. Musk wants X to be the central place where you post, shop, send money, access financial services and do whatever else it is you do as part of being alive on the planet.

In this episode we dive into the idea of the everything app, and why tech companies have been chasing that dream for at least a decade.

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