E76: Elon vs. Twitter

(0:00) Axon CEO Rick Smith joins David Friedberg (2:39) History of TASER/Axon: brink of bankruptcy to IPO (9:05) Going public during the dot-com crash, selling to police, battling shorts and an SEC investigation, pivoting to software (20:47) Creating the police body cam, surveill ...  Show more

(0:00) Bestie intros! (3:37) Midterms postmortem: What led to a generational GOP collapse? (32:26) How can Trump salvage his presidency? (53:13) Market reaction: Data center fears, $4T in market cap shed, AI ban potential (1:24:21) Science Corner: OpenAI solves Exponential Time H ...  Show more

Elon Musk and Twitter are headed to a Delaware courtroom. (0:21) Jason Moser discusses: - How messy the current situation is for Twitter's employees and shareholders - The potential for another company to swoop in and buy Twitter - Why Amazon's combination of retail and AWS make ...  Show more

Now that Elon Musk has a deal in place to take Twitter private, we have a few questions. (0:20) Bill Mann discusses: - The mediocre performance (to date) of Twitter's business - Whether Tesla shareholders should be nervous about Musk running another company - How other ad-driven ...  Show more

The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Liz Lopatto discuss Elon Musk buying Twitter and what's next for the social media company. Senior reporter Alex Heath joins the show to discuss his experience with Snap's selfie drone. Managing editor Alex Cranz refreshes the crew on the ...  Show more