“The past two years have been a complete nightmare in terms of supply chain disruption, one after another, and we’re still not out of it,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said.
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Elon Musk avoid discussing the fall Twitter Two sources who attended the conference told Reuters.
In an extensive interview, sources say, Musk has spent most of his time talking about the colonization of Mars and praising the virtues of boosting birth rates on Earth. Musk, CEO of Tesla and rocket company Space X, has long advocated establishing a civilization on the red planet.
Earlier this week, Musk said he would do his best to help with what he called a “low population crisis,” following a media report that said he had twins with a top executive. at his brain chip startup Neuralink.
He talks about how birth rates are falling in rich countries, a topic he has explored a lot on Twitter.
The billionaire entrepreneur took the stage at Allen & Co.’s Valley of the Sun Conference, an annual meeting of technology and media executives in Idaho, less than 24 hours after he made the announcement. terminates the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
The interview was conducted by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company founded by Musk and several others.
Musk’s arrival at the Allen & Co.’s Valley of the Sun Conference. came as a shock to this week’s unrecorded event, where making headlines often happens outside of the prying eyes of the media.
“It’s like an absolute mess,” said one senior communications executive, who spoke on condition of anonymity before the interview. “The guy who makes his own rules… I don’t want to be Twitter where you have to take this guy seriously.”
The Valley of the Sun is often covered as a sporting version of the Met Gala, with photographers documenting appearances by media moguls in fleeces and reporters documenting energetic lunches. quality at the on-site Konditorei cafe.
A Hollywood power broker on Friday expressed hope that Musk’s interview would liven up the serious, serious atmosphere of this year’s conference.
Hours later, Musk’s lawyers sent an eight-page letter to Twitter, stating that he intends to cancel the deal to buy the social network. The document, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleges Twitter failed to respond to repeated requests for information over the past two months or failed to obtain his consent before taking relevant actions. could affect its business, such as firing two key executives.
Up until that point, conversations in the media had focused on Wall Street reassessing its streaming business after Netflix Inc lost subscribers.
A digital media executive said Hollywood, which is usually isolated from recessions, is suddenly worried about how a deteriorating economy will affect billion-dollar investment. la into streaming services.
“For the first time, people are aware that the economy has an impact on the entertainment business, because inflation affects disruption,” said the digital media executive. “People are now saying, ‘Wow, are people really going to pay for these three?'”
Following Musk’s announcement, one executive took note of the elephant in the room, comments made Saturday that could upset two conference attendees: Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal.
One of Musk’s last public messages to Agrawal came in the form of a tweet featuring a poop emoji in response to the Twitter CEO’s defense of the company’s handling of the spam program.
