Dara Khosrowshahi

No, because the next day there was another crisis. It was like, breathe for two minutes, drink more wine, and then off to the next battle.

There's only one Elon Musk type operating Twitter.

There's only one Elon Musk type operating Twitter.

It's a singular point.

It's a singular point.

What I really think? Yeah. Twitter feed?

What I really think? Yeah. Twitter feed?

So I tweet mostly myself. There's some stuff that folks say, we did this. It's me. Like, I don't have someone running the account. And I mix it up with some personal stuff and then some business stuff because you want to keep it entertaining. But at the same time, I'm not using Twitter to express myself. I'd rather have a long-form discussion like this. This is, to me, much more interesting.

So I tweet mostly myself. There's some stuff that folks say, we did this. It's me. Like, I don't have someone running the account. And I mix it up with some personal stuff and then some business stuff because you want to keep it entertaining. But at the same time, I'm not using Twitter to express myself. I'd rather have a long-form discussion like this. This is, to me, much more interesting.

And so Twitter tweets can be taken out of context, et cetera. So I'm not there to stir the pot. So maybe that's what comes out in terms of my Twitter persona. I'll take Obama-esque or Clint-esque.

And so Twitter tweets can be taken out of context, et cetera. So I'm not there to stir the pot. So maybe that's what comes out in terms of my Twitter persona. I'll take Obama-esque or Clint-esque.

Yeah, that's quite a compliment.

Yeah, that's quite a compliment.

Yes.

Yes.

It was definitely my favorite board to be on. It was a really interesting time at the New York Times because they were... really becoming a top technical company in terms of being a publisher.

It was definitely my favorite board to be on. It was a really interesting time at the New York Times because they were... really becoming a top technical company in terms of being a publisher.

Like it's at a pretty extraordinary learning organization and they wanted me as like the tech person and I was coming from Expedia and, you know, optimization, all that stuff and their capacity to learn like super traditional company capacity to learn was pretty awesome. One of the fascinating parts about the company and it's both,

Like it's at a pretty extraordinary learning organization and they wanted me as like the tech person and I was coming from Expedia and, you know, optimization, all that stuff and their capacity to learn like super traditional company capacity to learn was pretty awesome. One of the fascinating parts about the company and it's both,

a superpower or it could be a weakness is total separation of church and state in terms of content and business, right? So like when I asked, well, what's the cost of certain kinds of content and then how much traffic, you know, can we have the connection between cost of content and traffic? It was like, no, you cannot ask that question because the content is separate.