Big Technology Podcast

What Happens To Twitter After All This? — With Three Ex-Twitter Employees and Two Reporters

Jul 13, 2022

Jenna Golden, former political ad sales leader, Brandon Borrman, ex-global communications head, and Leslie Miley, who led Twitter's safety engineering, join CNBC reporter Alex Sherman to unpack the chaos surrounding Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition. They discuss the internal struggles at Twitter, the impact on employee morale, and the complexities of balancing shareholder interests with user needs. The group delves into Musk’s motivations, the challenges of content moderation, and speculates on Twitter's future amidst ongoing turbulence.

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Intro

2min

Twitter Turmoil: The Musk Effect

16min

Navigating Twitter's Acquisition Turbulence

6min

Musk's Vision for Twitter

4min

Navigating Leadership in Crisis

3min

Twitter's Evolution and Challenges

19min

Navigating Twitter's Content Moderation Challenges

7min

Speculation on Twitter's Future Leadership and its Implications

3min

Three former Twitter employees (Jenna Golden, Brandon Borrman, Leslie Miley) and CNBC media & tech reporter Alex Sherman join Big Technology Podcast for a breakdown of Twitter v. Musk. While at Twitter, Golden ran political ad sales, Borrman ran communications, and Miley ran an engineering team. We do our best to make sense of this wild story, looking at how far Twitter should take its lawsuit, what's happening inside the company as it goes through this episode, and how Twitter's balancing the needs of shareholders with its users. Stay tuned for the second half, where we predict the outcome of the case.

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