EP 11: Elon Musk Buys 9.2% of Twitter, A Deep Dive Into Twitter History, The End of Fast, and Nikita's Best Man Speech
On this week’s episode, the Three Cartoon Avatars explore how Twitter came to be, and how it ended up where it is today! Plus why Elon Musk might have bought in, and what it could mean for the future. Plus a sad end for Fast and an incredible number of bad takes as a result!
The Logan Bartlett Show · Logan Bartlett, Zak Kukoff, Nikita Bier
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Show Notes
(00:39) - Elon Musk buys 9.2% of Twitter and species he only wants “the good parts”
(11:54) - History of Twitter runs deep and sometimes stupid
(16:40) - Twitter’s current role/issues, and there are a lot
(35:54) - Fast shuts down and the schadenfreude gets intense
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Reference Links:
CNBC – Elon Musk joins twitter’s board
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/05/elon-musk-to-join-twitters-board-of-directors.html
https://www.piratewires.com/p/king-shit
Parag Agrawal – Elon Musk Tweet
https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1511320953598357505?s=20&t=4a0XIu0pgG4b2eYOWfKsig
Jack Dorsey – Elon Musk Tweet
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1511329369473564677
Elon Musk – Tweet about joining board
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1511322655609303043?s=20&t=teLPQd78_3JAKSmFcxVtqg
The Information – Kate Clark article on Fast
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/live-fast-die-young-behind-the-fall-of-a-one-click-wonder
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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.
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