One Year of X: Twitter’s Highs and Lows in Elon’s First Year with Jag Sharma, Jen Campbell and Jason Kapadia - E57
It’s judgement time for Elon.
We’re a year on from the fateful day that he spent $44 billion on Twitter, and with high expectations have come the fair share of plaudits and pessimism. So let’s cut through the noise - how is he REALLY doing so far?
Who better to lead the debate for Elon than Jason Kapadia in the blue corner, and the more sceptical Jag Sharma and Jen Campbell in the red corner…
This episode of Disconnected covers:
Early predictions on Elon’s plans and whether they came true
Where we think the tipping point has been as X finds its feet
All the major controversies, feature changes and u-turns
The interesting move to appoint a CEO from media, rather than the tech space
Episode Highlights:
“I can't say everything has been good, but if you look at the list of things that have changed, at least he's pushed a very fast pace of change to the company, which was historically just a very stagnant company.” - 5:15 - Jason Kapadia
“Everyone thought we would come into 2023 and would hit the ground running and lots of things would come out. By the time we got to march and we realised all you really got was 4,000 character tweets for being a Twitter blue user, it started to look a bit bleak. ” - 11:10 - Jen Campbell
“If Musk wants to bring in longer video content, and longer engagement and reading, he’s really going to have to change users' experience on the platform, and that’ll take a really long time.” - 21:45 - Jen Campbell
“It seems that for every bit of news that seems positive or slightly positive, there's also something that still seems a bit not sure-footed.” - 29:00 - Jag Sharma
Links & references:
Jen Campbell:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-m-campbell/
Jason Kapadia:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonkapadia/
https://www.instagram.com/jasonkapadia/
Jag Sharma: