Elon Musk takes over Twitter

I see the stock character techno-billionaire playboy who turns out to be the villain in every low-rent cartoon and pre-teen comedy I endure on Netflix for the sake of my daughter.

 

Private market valuations have been pretty insane, too. Plenty of ways to extract value. Especially if you’re Elon Musk.

OR it’s his hobby horse and all is good so long as it generates enough cash to service the debt, yeah? That’s nowhere near a lock but still on th table.

It’s definitely risky, but I also think at a certain point Musk has a lot of leverage. Tesla’s valuation is based largely on his cult of personality, so he has a nuclear option with that collateral.

I’m far from an Elonophile but…. ::gestures toward the last decade:: … he seems to know how to get what he wants. Someone told him he has 270 billion dollars and he plans to spend them, the rest is just details.

 

Or are you talking about William Atherton, who made a career of playing prissy, pissy legal types?

 

I'd have a lot of fun in life with 250 billion dollars.

 

They really are.
I spend a portion of every day working in digital marketing. An advertiser's experience in Facebook/Instagram or Twitter is so different compared to Google. The former have overly complex and poorly designed user experiences, and absolutely zero customer support, while Google has an easy-to-use dashboard, and round-the clock, instant access to CSR.

But what about results? You can't overstate how poorly Facebook advertising performs these days. I was just at a digital marketing convention and EVERYONE has slashed their FB advertising budgets because the ROI has increased so much. I can't comment about Twitter advertising because I know literally no one who uses it.

On the other hand, lots of folks were talking about how Google's new advertising platform, called Performance Max, is revolutionary. It's been called "Facebook circa 2013" and the results we're seeing with our advertising is proving them correct.

What makes Performance Max (which I say sounds like those pills they sell at registers in liquor stores) so effective? It leverages ALL data in the Google universe...not just where you clicked or where you visited. P-Max uses personal data from G-mail, Google Sheets, Google Docs, YouTube, and all other Google sources to tailor audiences for your advertising. I heard one expert say, "Google was smart. They let FB take the lead for a couple of years and then take the hit on personal data protection controversy, so that they could then step in and fill the gap without anyone noticing..."

Plus, Alphabet and Apple have a surprisingly symbiotic relationship so we don't expect to see a future iOS fuck Google like 15 did Facebook.

 

“Cars that don’t especially work?” Que?

 

Big Ragu-

You're an 'Elon' fanboy - I am jolted into amazement.

 

Tesla top-of-range car caught fire while owner was driving, lawyer says

 

Surely you’re not basing your entire point on one vehicle?

 

Cars should never be put on top of the range. They catch fire!

 

Tesla does so bad in "initial quality" surveys that it will not allow JD Power to survey the owners.