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Jan 2023
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What The Heck Is Elon Musk Thinking?

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It’s been nothing but mayhem at Twitter since Elon Musk took the helm of the social media company late last year and began shaking things up in ways that don’t always seem to make much sense, especially from the outside. Many users are furious and advertisers are fleeing. Musk’s preoccupation with Twitter is also fueling concerns that he’s not paying enough attention to Tesla, his once-invincible electric car company that’s lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value. Bloomberg journalists Brad Stone, Sarah Frier and Kurt Wagner join this episode to explain Musk’s chaotic moves and where he goes from here.

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