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A recap of Elon Musk's Clubhouse appearance, which broke the 5,000 participant limit, pushing some to YouTube, and included an interview with Robinhood's CEO
So, @elonmusk tells world that he will be on Clubhouse tonight but many reporters can't listen because Marc Andreessen (Clubhouse's biggest investor) blocks them. So, yeah, reallly time to think abt power powerful people have to shape narrative exactly as they want. #propaganda
We'll have Clubhouse co-founder Paul Davison on @SquawkCNBC Monday morning to debrief the @elonmusk convo and discuss the future of Paul's fast-growing social media app @joinClubhouse https://twitter.com/...
If you missed last night's Good Time show on @joinClubhouse with @elonmusk & @vladtenev (hosted by @sriramk @aarthir @pmarca @stevesi & @garrytan) you can listen here: https://a16z-live.simplecast.com/ ... And subscribe to the new βa16z Liveβ pod for more Clubhouse chats & other …
Vlad's explanation of why Robinhood shutdown buys of $GME is so clear, why didn't he just say this on Thursday. Basically he says that Robinhood needed to give $3b as collateral, but after removing buys of volatile stocks they were able to go with only $700m in collateral. https:…
Listening to Elon chat on Clubhouse: Part of why you need journalists is for the tension. Without tension β even if it's a group of really interesting people talking β things get boring.
When will people realize that Clubhouse βmay have beenβ powered by Agora, a Chinese real-time engagement firm? (Cue βthe Chinese are listening in and collecting user dataβ alarm π¨) https://www.cnbc.com/...
There have been multiple 1000+ person rooms *pre-gaming* tonight's Elon interview on @GoodTimeShowCH. Emergent behavior ftw! A year from now, what's a more interesting interview platform for a public figure: a Sunday primetime Clubhouse show or β60 Minutesβ? https://twitter.com/.…
Talking to @elonmusk on Clubhouse right now, Robinhood CEO @vladtenev says the company's external clearinghouse partner, using a complicated formula tied to volatility, demanded it post $3 billion in collateral to back meme stock margin trades last Thursday.
Marc is a reg. speaker on nightly tech show listened to by 100k+ plus hosted by @sriramk. But b/c Marc often speaks, reporters he blocked can't listen w/ thousands of others. It is one thing to block people from sending you messages but listening to public conversations?
The chip in the monkey's skull uses βtiny wiresβ to connect it to its brain. Musk said βIt's not an unhappy monkeyβ during a talk on #Clubhouse, @ElonMusk says his start-up @Neuralink has wired up a #monkey to play #VideoGames using its mind https://www.cnbc.com/... https://twitt…
The implications of this are fascinating. Many of us are currently blocked by @theinformation. I am blocked by editors for talking about how there is absolutely no connection between restrictionism & xenophobia; a truism which no major paper acknowledges. Let's open this dialog? …
If you were asleep (like me) and missed @elonmusk chat on @joinClubhouse, this is a full summary. πͺβ¨ Love the style - made me feel like I was listening. When he grilled Robinhood CEO at the end...π₯ https://twitter.com/...
Media companies are direct competitors with tech companies, as you have documented. There's no reason to give free content to competitors. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Last night @elonmusk appearance was the tipping point moment for @joinClubhouse. It was far more human then AMAs of the text world. It was the perfect presentation of the modern AM radio call-in/talk show reconstituted in this epoch. Humans are #VoiceFirst. https://twitter.com/..…
A prominent podcaster said on CH that they allow their guests review the episodes before publishing. No journalist is ever going agree to that, but if a VC can get distribution from talking to this podcaster, why should they speak to you? Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
And now tech and business journalists will have to decide if they will cover @elonmusk's interview with @sriramk and @aarthir like entertainment journalists have to cover celebrities' Instagram posts.
Never in my life would I have thought that I'd be up at 11:30 at night listening to Elon Musk interview the CEO of Robinhood and be completely captivated by it. Clubhouse is wild.
Wow, @vladtenev (Robinhood CEO) talking about his crazy weekend on Clubhouse, βsays I just randomly downloaded this app last weekβ He got put in touch with @elonmusk for crisis control stuff re the week https://twitter.com/...
So is Clubhouse about exclusivity after all? 5,000 people in a room feels like a low number for radio/podcast/twitch streams. But 99% of people in there will interact with Elon as much as if they were listening there.
all the boring sycophants βinterviewingβ elon on clubhouse tonight were so pathetic that when elon called up the robinhood ceo for a surprise chat and actually asked him real questions the room was like βwow elon is an investigative journalistβ lmao
@pmarca Do you think the mars civilization will turn out differnetly than earth bc of how hard it was to get it started? @elonmusk - yea. probably will. the fact that you can only go every 2 years.. that time gap will mean that there's a new cohort arriving every 2 yrs.
I don't think good PR solves a company's problems, because you can't explain/spin away your problems. But man does Robinhood need PR help: Transparency/context is what you're supposed to provide on day 1 of your crisis - not days later to Elon Musk in a semi-private chat room. ht…
One of the things we lost when tech became mainstream is that tech journalism devolved into - talking about how much money was being made - creating narratives about βgoodβ & βbadβ companies There is a hunger for just talking earnestly about tech again https://twitter.com/...