Brown: Musk would not be buying Twitter if its numbers were good
Toni Cowan-Brown · The future of Twitter · Apr 18, 2022 · at 2:18
Toni Karen Brown argues that Twitter's vulnerability to Elon Musk's acquisition bid is entirely a consequence of its weak financial and daily active user performance.
0:00 / 0:14exact quote · 14.7s
720p mp4 · rendered on demand · StarZero watermark
“Everything that you've just described there, the sort of the daily active users, the fact that it's not making that much money, all of that is feeding into why we've been having this conversation about, you know, wanting to buy Twitter, because if it was in a good shape, and if the numbers were good, this conversation wouldn't be happening.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading: filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard (the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Toni Cowan-Brown
Brown: Silicon Valley is building incredible AI capabilities that nobody needs
“And maybe this is the first time that the disconnect is just so obvious that we have this insane capability of building these things that are incredible and yet no one actually needs it right now.”
Brown: Uber expanded abroad by ignoring local regulations, causing severe backlash
“And it was just so interesting to see the complete lack of understanding of the policies and the regulations, whether it was in Europe, Saudi Arabia, you name it. And they were just like, we're just going to do it the American way and it will stick. And you're…”
Catton-Brown: Putting US Formula One rights behind a paywall is a mistake
“And I think, in my opinion, I think it's a terrible, terrible mistake to put the US rights of Formula One behind, behind a paywall. Now is absolutely not the time, I think.”
Catton-Brown: Formula One will not secure its initial asking price for rights
“F-One is definitely not going to get the initial price set that they want. ESPN is definitely not, sounds like they're not going to fight for it.”
Catton-Brown: Sports copying F1's Netflix boom ignore the pandemic's role
“All of these other sports are trying to recreate this magical Netflix strive to survive moment. But they seem to omit the fact that we had a pandemic. Everyone was stuck at home. Everyone was dying for content. The first season of Drive to Survive was actually…”
Catton-Brown: Modern sports fans consume social highlights instead of full live events
“The reality is very few people today are sitting down and watching a full match, a full football match, a full F one race, but Bizarrely, they're consuming four to six hours a day of highlights and reels and social commentary and guides, whatever it is, but th…”