Elon Musk's Twitter endgame: Is there a method to his madness?



Lerer Hippeau managing partner Eric Hippeau discusses Elon Musk’s long-term vision for the social media platform on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ #foxbusiness #clamancountdown

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  1. Let’s put this in perspective. He buys Twitter with a 2b per year interest payment. He fires 75% of the work force and said he’s giving severance (doesn’t matter because the warm act requires it without notice) which was roughly 1.6 billion. He got 80% of his income from ads — which are no longer on the platform. Twitter was in the hole about 120 mil per year. It’s true he reduced expenses by about 75mil and Twitter blue makes about 30 mil/year which would make it -15mil/year had Twitter have the same income which it doesn’t. He has no idea what he’s doing!!!!!!!

  2. Did people really expect him to not change anything?

  3. He's spot on, twitter is clunky to use and there's two main reasons I don't use it that often. One, I don't like the maximum character feature making one have to follow it up with a tweet part 2 and 3+. Just let people say what their gonna say with as much space as they need. Two, I don't like how I can't read the comments in response to the tweets, a lot of times that's all I want to do because some responses are text gold. In fact I could live without number one of my complaints if they would open up the threads on every tweet so the comments were accessible. That's Just my nickel's worth of free advice nobody asked for.

  4. Just wait and see. If anyone can guess exactly what billionaire will do then they can become billionaire themself.

  5. Business genius. Firing janitors and removing toilet paper, stop paying rent will go a long way.

  6. He knows exactly what he is doing and hes smarter than pretty much everyone messing w him. And more polite. His brain is off the charts.

  7. God Bless Trump and Elon Musk.
    Both are True Leaders.

  8. Elon took it private so that he could sort everything out without worrying about share holders and the legal consequences. He does not need to set our expectations or be transparent. He is going to have a very hard time finding a replacement ceo that isn't going to bend the knee to the feds. Once twitter has been squeezed dry of all its dirty secrets and once the policies have been mostly ironed out he will let go and turn it over to someone. He is bleeding money right now and it is doubtful it can be truly profitable at the level of payback. This is going to be interesting to watch

  9. did he just hire mr beast as ceo wtf movie saw style i want to play a game with you.

  10. Advertisers need to understand that the people who back Musk also buy products. I'll certainly look at who backed out and stop buying their product.

  11. The sooner Elon bankrupts Twitter, the better.

  12. He's no champion of free speech. After one of the biggest data leaks yet recorded…he's clearly a Russian Asset.

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  14. No, only madness in the method.

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  16. Elon can ban liberals….
    But he can't keep 200 million Twitter accounts from being hacked…. I'm selling my Tesla stock at the opening bell.

  17. No red wave. No trump. No kevin maccarthy. Lol it just gets worse for elon the 🤡

  18. Elon has clearly stated everything this guest is trying to be clever about.

  19. That dude is speaking for the Hedge Funds and they are left out of the game, so no wonder he'd wish Twitter to go broke. Dream on Hypo.

  20. Well, it seems to me Musk isn't the type of guy to walk into any situation without having good ideas about where, what and how he is gonna get to where he wants to get to …. regardless of the currently perceived chaos ……

  21. Fox Business putting some sense into Fox News is something I wasn't expecting.

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  23. Blaa blaa blaa.. … what’s the news? Nothing have been said that we don’t already know.
    The advice that was given, is what Elon is already doing.
    Stop talking like he is not intelligent. Let him be. He is a very smart man. And smarter than you two.

  24. I THINK the releases must be done..people who don't like transparency won't like it…oh well…

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  26. Who is this tool? The wokesters actively lobbied the advertisers who happily bend over for the woke mob… Did Lerer really think that you could disrupt something of this scale over a long period of time to make it smoooooth sailing? Appears to have spent too much time behind a desk theorising about things, not enough time actually doing things…

  27. I doubt any of this was a surprise to him. I wouldn't bet against him shocking everyone and turning into a huge profit.

  28. Make it both a microblog and blog site

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  30. Truth is chaotic but it still needs to be spoken!! Put your big girl/boy panties on and deal with it

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  32. The major media is destroying their remaining credibility by ignoring the corruption at Twitter and collusion with Democrats that Musk is exposing. Their only interest in Musk is destroying Twitter now that it's no longer a leftist safe space for politically motivated censorship.

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  34. I don’t think it is chaotic.. it seems more better. I mean he is giving us our voice back. Many of us was banned for no reason!

  35. No there is no end game he's just a moron

  36. He's no different than the rest of the "rich elite"..just another snake in the grass

  37. he thinks so far out ahead of every decision he makes unlike us mere mortals…

  38. Eric Hippeau isn't really qualified to speak on the issue since he hasn't truly followed what Musk is doing or says he wants to do at Twitter. He wants to turn it into a non-Chinese version of WeChat, an "everything app".

  39. He overpaid for Twitter then scared away advertisers with his right wing tweets. End game is that he loses more money.

  40. The selfishness of some Chinese officials has taken precedence over the country! Over and over again, allowed Taiwan authorities connive at treason! we suggested that these officials who connive at Taiwan's treason be impeached democratically!

  41. I don't like twitter…too small to read

  42. The blue bird took the red pill

  43. I am sure there is….he is verywise??

  44. Thank God for Elon Musk!!! The truth is coming out!

  45. The solution is simple: Uncompromising Freedom of Speech, as was the case on the Internet till about 15 years ago.