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Speaker 1: From the heart of where innovation, money and power COLLI

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Speaker 1: in Silicon Valley and beyond. This is Bloomberg Technology with

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Speaker 1: Emily Jay I'm Emily check in San Francisco, and this

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Speaker 1: is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up in the next hour, it's official.

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk has agreed to buy Twitter for forty four

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Speaker 1: billion dollars. The world's richest man will soon be in

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Speaker 1: charge of one of the most influential social networks in

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Speaker 1: the world. We've got this developing story covered from all

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Speaker 1: angles over the course of the hour, a new chapter

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Speaker 1: in tech history. But at the same time that the

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Speaker 1: Musk deal is going through, he tweets another insult at

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Speaker 1: the SEC, calling those who run it shameless puppets over

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Speaker 1: his ongoing Tesla feud. What all these jabs might mean

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Speaker 1: when regulators get a look at this deal, And aside

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Speaker 1: from all the money that's being spent on Twitter, the

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Speaker 1: other big question, of course, is what happens to everyone

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Speaker 1: who's been banned from it, including former President Trump. How

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Speaker 1: exactly does Elon Musk defined free speech will wait into

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Speaker 1: the thorniest part of this debate that has perplexed perplexed

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Speaker 1: tech platforms for decades. We're gonna get to all of

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Speaker 1: that in a moment, but first Elon Musk gets his way,

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Speaker 1: agreeing to a deal to take Twitter private for forty

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Speaker 1: four billion dollars. Each investor will receive fifty four dollars

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Speaker 1: and twenty cents for every Twitter share they own. I

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Speaker 1: want to stick with Twitter and bring in insider intelligence,

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Speaker 1: principal analyst Jasmine Edinburgh, as well as Bloomberg's Michelle Davis.

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Speaker 1: Michelle talked to us about the unknowns at this point.

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Speaker 1: We've got Twitter earnings coming up, for example, in just

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Speaker 1: a few days. Is there a chance Elon Musk could

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Speaker 1: unknowns that we have at this point are many, um,

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Speaker 1: but it is official. There is a deal at What

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Speaker 1: we don't know is this twenty one billion dollar equity

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Speaker 1: and how much of that will take the form of,

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Speaker 1: you know, other equity partners coming in. It's our understanding

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Speaker 1: Another question that we have is, uh, what happens from

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Speaker 1: do Twitter shareholders approve this steal? At this point, we

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Speaker 1: views are. Now. Twitter has said it's not going to

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Speaker 1: latest numbers as planned Jasmine. One of the many opens

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk wants to he can take out the equity

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Speaker 1: Coming up Musk taking Twitter private almost a decade to

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Speaker 1: On April fourteen, Elon Musk offered to purchase Twitter for

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Speaker 1: bent towards free expression. That's what he's stated pretty clearly.

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Speaker 1: The problem is that one percent of users who make

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Speaker 1: a mess of the place right with spam, harassment, hate speech,

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Speaker 1: what some people call lawful but awful speech. And the

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Speaker 1: problem is that if you don't do any thinking about

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Speaker 1: that kind of speech, you drive away you're happy, productive,

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Speaker 1: responsible users, and you turn off your advertisers who really

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Speaker 1: don't want their ads appearing next to hateful or harassing content.

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Speaker 1: Like every community wants both a generally free environment um

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Speaker 1: but also police force to enforce the rules, and that

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Speaker 1: that's what most people want on social media. That comes

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Speaker 1: through in pulling. People want more transparency for expression, but

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Speaker 1: they also want clear content moderation, and they don't want

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Speaker 1: to see junk. And I think he'll he'll see that. Well,

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Speaker 1: uh renee to rest uh put this. I believe you

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Speaker 1: know very eloquently where she said, Elon Musk is equal

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Speaker 1: parts innovator, equal parts potentially ConTroll even though I think

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Speaker 1: we can all agree Elon Musk is incredibly innovative. Is

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Speaker 1: he innovative enough to figure out free speech in a

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Speaker 1: way that works for everyone when so many people, so

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Speaker 1: many massive companies that have come before, have not been

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Speaker 1: able to Adam Well, I think you're absolutely right. I mean, frankly,

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Speaker 1: one of the challenges about this is that Twitter is

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Speaker 1: such an important service for policymakers, for newsmakers that whoever

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Speaker 1: runs the company, whether it's Musk or whether it's Jack

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00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: Dorsey or Dicoslo before them, have found that sort of

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Speaker 1: politicians working the refs over content policies to be a

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Speaker 1: huge headache. And I suspect once that initial enthusiasm passes,

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Speaker 1: he may find that too. May be relatively easy to

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Speaker 1: you know, to reinstate Trump as as Brad said, But

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Speaker 1: what happens next time there's a January six type of man?

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Speaker 1: What happens when Nancy Pelosi calls because she doesn't like

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Speaker 1: a call they've made. So these are calls that no

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Speaker 1: social media ceo relish is making. But unfortunately it's it's

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Speaker 1: part of the job. Now. Elon Musk loves polls. If

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Speaker 1: only he could do a poll saying do you want

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Speaker 1: me to own Twitter? Yes or no, we would know

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Speaker 1: how many Twitter users are actually in favor of this.

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Speaker 1: Certainly there's a huge contingent of people that thinks, uh,

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Speaker 1: and including the Twitter board, Uh, this is this is

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Speaker 1: the right thing to do. Um. David, you mentioned the

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Speaker 1: idea of authenticating users. What exactly would that accomplish. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's remember Twitter has never required users to really be anything.

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Speaker 1: You could call yourself anything, you could be anyone, and

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Speaker 1: there was really a lot of opacity in terms of

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Speaker 1: who was actually speaking. Of course, some people identified themselves

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Speaker 1: clearly on their Twitter profile, etcetera, but that was not

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Speaker 1: a requirement of the service. Facebook, on the other hand,

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Speaker 1: has always had that um and even though it's been

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Speaker 1: diverged from some degree, it really did to some extent

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Speaker 1: maintain civility in the service relatively UM and I think

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Speaker 1: that could be a more civil conversation just by making

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Speaker 1: that change on Twitter in itself, where you always knew

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Speaker 1: who was speaking, because anonymity is one of the real

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Speaker 1: scourges of of disinformation and causes a way of successful disinformation.

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Speaker 1: You don't know who's speaking, people can mask themselves, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: Uh So, I think that's a very positive thing. But

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Speaker 1: I want to just keep going back to this question,

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Speaker 1: does sect does Does Must really want to make money

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Speaker 1: from this deal or is he? Is he considering this

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Speaker 1: a play thing? You'd think with this kind of expenditure,

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Speaker 1: he's got to make a good business. If he really

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Speaker 1: has to make a good business. I think these agonizing

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Speaker 1: questions everybody's asking about moderation will be settled by the marketplace,

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Speaker 1: and they will be just settled in the way that

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Speaker 1: we were just hearing. He will have to moderate just

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Speaker 1: like every other social media does because that is what

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Speaker 1: users and the community wants. And maybe SpaceX is an

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Speaker 1: interesting comparison there because he has kept that as a

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Speaker 1: private company. But we don't know what the financials look like. Adam.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to hear from you, given you know you

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Speaker 1: running in these Washington policy circles. Is this going to

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Speaker 1: raise the eyebrows of policy makers? Do you foresee any

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Speaker 1: potential regulatory issues down the line? I don't foresee any issues,

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Speaker 1: particularly with Um with the sale in terms of a

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Speaker 1: review or anything like that. I think we've already seen

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Speaker 1: that Republicans and Democrats are viewing this a little bit differently.

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Speaker 1: I think in the last couple of weeks you've seen

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Speaker 1: Congressional Republicans cheering for must takeover of the company. Uh,

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Speaker 1: perhaps because they think he's gonna allow Trump back on

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Speaker 1: I think if you gave most Republicans and congress truth

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Speaker 1: serum would probably say that Trump being on Twitter was

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Speaker 1: better for Democrats and egg for Republicans. Um. But so

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Speaker 1: I do think you'll see the continued working of the reps.

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Speaker 1: That's always been true of social media. But I don't

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Speaker 1: foresee significant regulatory issues. I do foresee that Muscle will

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Speaker 1: continue to poke at regulators like the SEC. That's been

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Speaker 1: part of his history. And Paragua, the CEO of Twitter,

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Speaker 1: is actually in the middle of an all hands meeting

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Speaker 1: with employees right now. He's just said that the company

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Speaker 1: will continue to operate as usual until the deal closes.

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Speaker 1: We're getting headlines from the meeting now that no layoffs

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Speaker 1: are currently planned, that stock grants will continue to vest.

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Speaker 1: But uh, there's gonna be a hiring freeze for now, David,

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Speaker 1: you really curious how employees are taking this as I

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Speaker 1: understand that there's been a huge contingent of people I'm

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Speaker 1: not happy about this, and another contingentive paper people strongly

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Speaker 1: in favor of Elon Musk. Also curious about Jack Dorsey

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Speaker 1: and the role that he's played in this equation. We

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Speaker 1: saw uh some uh you know, attention going back and

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Speaker 1: forth between Jack and Elon Musk. Jack changing his his

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Speaker 1: official title to Blockhead, Elon Musk complimating that since saying

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Speaker 1: that that that title is on fire, Jack responding that

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk is the techno king. What has been the

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Speaker 1: influence do you think of Jack Dorsey on this deal

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Speaker 1: having left the company. It's it's a good thing to

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Speaker 1: speculate about. My guess is that Jack, like me, is

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Speaker 1: cautiously optimistic about what this could mean. But nobody can

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Speaker 1: look at Elon Musk and not worry that something could

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Speaker 1: spin out of control in an unpredictable direction. And I'm

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Speaker 1: sure Jack, who feels very deeply attached to a proprietary

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Speaker 1: about Twitter, uh, wants to see his baby kept healthy.

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Speaker 1: And but I also think he knows that there have

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Speaker 1: been important changes that they have been prevented from making

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Speaker 1: because it would potentially cause short term profit implications or

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Speaker 1: or or revenue implications. And that is all going to

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Speaker 1: go away once the company's private. But can I just

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Speaker 1: ask Adam a question though, because I wonder about the SEC.

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Speaker 1: They still have to approve this transaction. Here's a guy

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Speaker 1: who was accused and settled with them for securities fraud

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00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 1: regarding tesla Um and didn't necessarily abide by the terms

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Speaker 1: of the settlement um, And what is the possibility, as

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Speaker 1: a Washington guru that maybe the SEC might think of

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Speaker 1: him as potentially unsuitable unless certain conditions are put on

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Speaker 1: this transaction. It's not an anti trust issue, but they

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00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: have the right to do whatever they want. Sure, it's

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Speaker 1: not out of the question. And certainly SEC chair Gary

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00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 1: Gensler has been not been shy about using his authority

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Speaker 1: when it comes to, for example, the whole crypto industry.

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Speaker 1: They haven't yet done this kind of thing, but I

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Speaker 1: think it's very possible and and certainly to the extent

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Speaker 1: that he could say, look, this is kind of my

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Speaker 1: moment to extract Um some kind of conditions or concessions

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Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's very possible. And of

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Speaker 1: course that's not the end of it, right because even

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Speaker 1: in um in must Roll, as had Tesla, he's constantly

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Speaker 1: tail tangling with regulators around safety and all these other questions,

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Speaker 1: and there there's some important questions. So I don't think

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Speaker 1: even the acquisition is even probably the end of of

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Speaker 1: must Uh interaction with regulators around the around Twitter. Alright, well,

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Speaker 1: let's just run about the end of anything. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to leave it there, David, and this is the

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Speaker 1: beginning but something, if it's anything. Adam Govakovitch, thank you

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Speaker 1: as well as David Kirkpatrick. We could debate this for hours.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you both joining us to Day to Way in

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Speaker 1: time for our crypto report now, and I want to

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Speaker 1: get back to elon Musk buying Twitter. He said he's

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Speaker 1: wants to open source the algorithm. Could Twitter's future then

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Speaker 1: be decentralized and if so, what does that mean. Jack Maller,

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Speaker 1: CEO of the digital payments platform Strike, and our crypto

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Speaker 1: Contributortionally bostick with us now to discuss. Jack. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: you have opinions about this as a Twitter user, but

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Speaker 1: also as a business Twitter, I know is one of

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Speaker 1: your customers. What's been your reaction to Elon Musk sealing

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Speaker 1: the deal here making it official today? Ladies, Hello, Happy Monday.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Um No, I'm very excited. I'm

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Speaker 1: very excited. I look up to Elon as an entrepreneur,

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Speaker 1: as a businessman, and as someone that makes the world

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Speaker 1: a better place. In my opinion, his existence has be

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Speaker 1: net positive. And uh, I think I've always thought that

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Speaker 1: an open payment standard that allows for natively digital physical settlement.

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Speaker 1: That sounds crazy, but it's a cheaper, better, faster, more inclusive,

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Speaker 1: inherently innovative payment standard. Uh. Suits Internet business is tremendously well.

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Speaker 1: It allows natively digital companies to enable native, natively digital payments.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think we've ever seen a social network

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Speaker 1: really exercise that muscle. And it seems like Elon has

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Speaker 1: been hinting at it and I'm very, very, very very

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Speaker 1: excited to see it come into reality hopefully Fingers crossed. Jack.

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Speaker 1: You know, so many people don't realize that there's already

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Speaker 1: a relationship between Strike and Twitter. Twitter said last year

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Speaker 1: that tipping with bitcoin would be made available over the

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Speaker 1: Lightning network with you Guys, how far has that gone

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Speaker 1: so far? And where else could it go? Now? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that over the last twelve months there's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of belief and interest in this concept of

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Speaker 1: creator economy. Is more and more of the creator world

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Speaker 1: lives now on the web. I kind of want to

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Speaker 1: take a step back for a second, though, and revisit

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Speaker 1: payments as a whole, payments as we know them today.

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Speaker 1: How do you digitally move a piece of paper? How

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Speaker 1: do you digitally move a rock? How do you digitally

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Speaker 1: move a bar of gold? Trick question? You can't. And

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Speaker 1: so all of the payments that are predicated on older

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Speaker 1: assets are promises of future settlement. And that's where you

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Speaker 1: get intomediaries like banks and card networks that facilitate these payments.

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Speaker 1: They make them really expensive, they make them really slow.

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Speaker 1: They inhibit other people in the world that they don't

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Speaker 1: serve from participating. For the first time ever, Guys, we

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Speaker 1: have an asset, a physical, physical bear instrument that's digital.

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Speaker 1: It's a mind blowing concept. How do you move a

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Speaker 1: physical bitcoin digitally? What do you mean? That's part of

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Speaker 1: how it works. And so not only can we do

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Speaker 1: creator payments, Twitter can do micro payments. Twitter can enable

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Speaker 1: creators economy. Twitter could check out at a Starbucks if

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Speaker 1: they're both on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. And so I

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Speaker 1: think when you lower the barrier of entry, you to

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Speaker 1: a physical bear instrument. You don't need to be issuing credit,

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Speaker 1: you don't need to be promising debt, you don't need

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Speaker 1: to be regulated to make payments and facilitate payments. So

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Speaker 1: I think Twitter could do anything really now you work

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Speaker 1: with the Lightning network that is very, very Bitcoin oriented.

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Speaker 1: But we're seeing Bitcoin and dogecoin rise on the back

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Speaker 1: of these announcements, So what do you think about the

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Speaker 1: potential for Bitcoin other currencies? Dogecoin We are seeing them

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Speaker 1: drop a bit now as well. But you know, we

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Speaker 1: all we have seen them, you know, rise on the

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Speaker 1: excitement of Elon Musk and Twitter. Yeah, you're seeing everything

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Speaker 1: in the world rise on excitement because the Federal Reserve

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Speaker 1: and other central banks are perverting risk haunts across all

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Speaker 1: assets and it's scaring the dear life out of everybody.

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Speaker 1: So everything is more appealing than holding dollars or just

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Speaker 1: something that's going to bleed to death. And so I

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Speaker 1: a central bank and central banks. It's also better at

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Speaker 1: being east of the visa. It's also better at being

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Speaker 1: Western Union and Western Union. It's also better at being

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Speaker 1: chased and chase. Why do I need to focus my

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Speaker 1: greatest tool that will ever be invented, at least in

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Speaker 1: my lifetime, And so I don't really get distracted by

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Speaker 1: the noise. Whether my couch my living room is up

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Speaker 1: a little bit or doge coin don't really matter to

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Speaker 1: me because I don't know the dollars down. That's what

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Speaker 1: that means. That must be some couch jack. Jack Baller

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Speaker 1: is always going to have you here on the Show's

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Speaker 1: CEO of Stripe and Strike and our crypto contributors, thank

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Speaker 1: you both. Delon Musk seiling the deal to buy Twitter.

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Speaker 1: a Twitter all hands meeting over the last our lot

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Speaker 1: of questions. There's been a lot of questions over the

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Speaker 1: last ten days, from inside as I sponging to what

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Speaker 1: Twitter workers want to know how does a private company

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Speaker 1: He says Twitter is going to continue to operate as

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Speaker 1: normal until a deal is done, whatever normal is in

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Speaker 1: this context. They've said that they want this deal to

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Speaker 1: happen before the end of the year. How soon could

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Speaker 1: it happen? How fast could could this steal get actually

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Speaker 1: get done? It would take time to take a company private.

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Speaker 1: There's not a lot of past precedent for a company

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Speaker 1: when does Elon must get to implement changes that he's proposed,

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Speaker 1: or how does that work? Is he literally walking into

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Speaker 1: I've got some ideas. Let's talk about it. You know,

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Speaker 1: positive about it. I think you cover this in the show.

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Speaker 1: They welcome his ideas. They just don't get the hierarchy.

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Speaker 1: How does this company now work? Does Paragaga yll stay

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Speaker 1: Twitter stay on CPEO of SpaceX have some management issues

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Speaker 1: that mean for current executives at Twitter? And finally, there

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Speaker 1: are questions about whether that's twenty one billion dollars of

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Speaker 1: exity financing, does he actually still bring partners in and

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Speaker 1: who are those people? Are they kind of like minded

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Speaker 1: that could change the dynamic of the deal. What are

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Speaker 1: the chances of steel falls through? Won't put a number

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Speaker 1: on it, would say lots of people are confident there

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Speaker 1: notes we've seen really in the last hour. Right, all right,

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Speaker 1: so many unanswered questions, but thank you for answering what

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Speaker 1: we do know. Bloomberg's at Ludlow. Thank you. That does

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Speaker 1: it for this edition of Bloomberg Technology. We're gonna be

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Speaker 1: back here tomorrow follow even more details, more angles on

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Speaker 1: the steel, as well as tech earnings from the biggest giants,

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Speaker 1: Alphabet and Myke. We're soft. Reporting will be across all

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Speaker 1: of it tomorrow. I'm Emily Check in San Francisco. This

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