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In fact, it made him stronger.

And you think about where he was when he bought the company.

He was worth, let's call it $300 billion, $400 billion.

His net worth now is approaching $800 billion.

He's probably going to become the first trillionaire.

It's this kind of realization of surprise for me that once you're that rich, once you have that much power and wealth, you can have this enormous screw up and come off for the better.

He spun out XAI from it.

He's used it to influence an election and put someone in the White House.

Not saying that that was the original goal, but that's certainly what happened.

And he has come off way more wealthy and way more powerful than I could have imagined when we started writing this book.

Yeah.

I think that just proves the idea is a myth.

Mm-hmm.

So the way he's acted has not, by any means, comported with this idea of free speech.

You know, we've had this kind of ideal for a long time.

Jack Dorsey and Ev Williams had this ideal.

But it's a myth when you're in a capitalistic society where one individual or, I don't know, a group of shareholders can buy a company and control it when you have Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook and Elon Musk at X, you know, billionaires that control these things.

And billionaires now who just bought TikTok.

Right.

They control these platforms.