The Ledger

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Opinion
Chamath: Twitter Spaces questioned SBF better than any mainstream journalist
“The Twitter spaces yesterday did a better job of trying to ask questions and getting to the truth than a single journalist has done, or the collective body of all of journalists.”
Chamath Palihapitiya Dec 3, 2022 ▶ 45:23 E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
Disclosure
Sacks co-hosted Ron DeSantis's 2024 presidential campaign launch on Twitter Spaces
“The DeSantis campaign connected with Twitter and Elon and I agreed to kind of co-host the space.”
David Sacks May 26, 2023 ▶ 5:06 E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
Assertion Partly supported
Calacanis: Twitter Spaces was a rushed product built to counter Clubhouse
“Twitter Spaces was really a rush job at Twitter. They did that in reaction to Clubhouse.”
Jason Calacanis May 26, 2023 ▶ 6:45 E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Previous record Twitter Spaces audience was roughly 100,000 listeners
“The engineers there told me that the previous order of magnitude was more like a 100,000, not a million.”
David Sacks May 26, 2023 ▶ 5:34 E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more
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