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I Don’t Have a Business Plan: How Elon Musk Wings It (nytimes.com)
7 points by ishikawa 1501 days ago
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Don't understand the idea of wanting people to pay to be on twitter. If I mostly consume stuff on twitter and don't have a lot of followers why would I pay? if I don't have a commercial interest for my twitter account why would I pay?
> Twitter will always be free for casual users, but maybe a slight cost for commercial/government users

Elon Musk - May 3rd 2022

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1521630589710872576

I seriously doubt Bezos was exercising his rational economic interests when he bought the Washington Post.
For $250M, he got a decent deal. The WaPo was facing consecutive years of revenue decline, but it was still one of the most prestigious outlets. And other than the NYT, the most tech-savvy and future-ready of U.S. outlets