

We are pretty sure that the kids are not saying this. “Now Don’t you think we should sit down together face to face this is as the kids of today say a ‘gangsta move.’” “ELON! You buying twitter or offering to buy twitter Wow!” the news anchor told Musk. But, alas, he talks to Gayle King, co-host of CBS Mornings. Gayle King: Buying Twitter is a ‘gangsta move’Įlon Musk doesn’t employ communications teams and generally does not enjoy talking to journalists. I’ll continue to do whatever it takes to make it work,” jack jack told Musk. But he was just as supportive of Musk in private. In a public comment in April, Dorsey said that “Elon is the singular solution” that he trusts. When Musk asked what Twitter should look like, jack jack replied, “I believe it must be an open source protocol, funded by a foundation of sorts that doesn’t own the protocol, only advances it. Cute!Īs early as March, Dorsey and Musk were conversing over the future of Twitter. So much so that Dorsey earned the pet name “jack jack” in Elon’s phone. But in these texts, it seems that the two entrepreneurs do really respect each other. We already knew that Dorsey was aboard the Musk takeover train. Jack Dorsey is known as ‘jack jack’ in Elon’s phone Thankfully, Musk later concluded that a blockchain-based Twitter would not be feasible at this time.

“So you’d have to pay maybe 0.1 Doge per comment or repost of that comment.” “My Plan B is a blockchain-based version of twitter, where the ‘tweets’ are embedded in the transaction of comments,” he told Steve Davis, president of The Boring Company.
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There is no throat to choke, so free speech is guaranteed.”Ī few days later, on April 13, Musk’s idea took greater shape. You have to pay a tiny amount to register your message on the chain, which will cut out the vast majority of spam and bots. “I have an idea for a blockchain social media system that does both payments and short text messages/links like twitter. But perhaps his worst idea yet is to combat bot spam by making people pay dogecoin to tweet. “Treat me like an engineer instead of a CEO,” Agrawal told Musk.Įlon and parag bonding over being engineering-types who got put in leadership positions, who just wanna do design work /JOOmuEzOvmĬount your blessings that you don’t need to pay Doge to tweetĮlon Musk has had some controversial ideas for Twitter, like verifying all human users and making the algorithm open source (this was Dorsey’s idea first). Musk and Agrawal’s relationship seemed promising at the beginning. But I love helping solve technical/product design problems,” Musk told Agrawal. I kinda don’t think I should be the boss of anyone. In an early April conversation with Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal - before their relationship soured to the point of poop emojis - Musk admitted that he doesn’t love being a leader. That’s a big revelation for someone who’s the CEO of more than a few companies. ‘I kinda don’t think I should be the boss of anyone’Įlon Musk doesn’t want to be a boss. There’s a lot to unpack here, so let’s get down to it. Behold: A trove of texts between Musk and key figures at Twitter, like founder Jack Dorsey, board chair Bret Taylor and current CEO Parag Agrawal, and other casual chats with investor Jason Calacanis and even Joe Rogan.

Twitter trial, slated to take place in a few weeks. A new, particularly juicy document has surfaced in discovery leading up to the Elon Musk v.
