Urban: Elon Musk will make Twitter successful within five years
Tim Urban · Tim Urban: How "Wait But Why" Grew to 600k Readers; AI's Revolutionary Impact on Media | E1048 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Aug 14, 2023 · at 1:12:04
Tim Urban, author and long-form writer, evaluates Elon Musk's ownership and experimentation at Twitter (X) in an interview on 20VC.
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“If, again, you put me in a time machine five years from now, my gut is I come out and it, yes, the answer is yes. Just because this guy does things well and sometimes it takes a while, right? And there's going to be a lot of experimentation. It's going to be a lot of failure along this experimentation way because that's how a real experimenter does things. They, they're fast and dirty and they, you know, make a bunch of decisions that they're like, oh, that was so I think it's going to be a rocky road, but I think it ends up in a place where you're like, oh, wow, there's this actually now it's like suddenly we realize like, This app is better than any of these others, and you know, it'll happen eventually.”
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