but severance, in some cases more. 50. but like i said, companies severance, in some cases more. so. but like i said, companies run on their own cognizance. it is not so easy for me to sell stock as people might think. i have to sell stock in certain periods, i can t sell stock in other periods. there are only brief windows where i can sell tesla stock and this is often taken as some lack of faith in tesla. in fact, the tesla stock sales because the tesla stock to plummet, which is not good. d0 the tesla stock to plummet, which is not aood. ~ the tesla stock to plummet, which is not flood. 4 ., the tesla stock to plummet, which is not aood. ~ ., ., not good. do you think the two are connected? not good. do you think the two are connected? well, not good. do you think the two are connected? well, people - not good. do you think the two are connected? well, people couldn tl connected? well, people couldn t tell the difference connected? well, people couldn t tell the difference b
lets go back six months and even further, when you put that initial bid in, you then had a waddle, said i don t want to buy twitter any more. it really is quite entertaining, like a soap opera, because when i first made the offer the response was the board adopted a poison pill, so they were like, hell no, you cannot buy twitter, we would rather die! we would rather chew on cyanide before being bought, that was their initial response. and then you said, actually, i don t want to buy. yes, and then they said, no, you must buy it, gun to the head, you have to buy! i m like, are youy the same people that said you would rather die than be bought? doesn t that seem odd? my question to you is, in terms of, he said the reason
off-line again? at this point, i i think we have a pretty good handle on what makes twitter work. we are also doing it with two data centres instead of three fuzz that were used to have three data centres, we shut down one of them. two thirds of the capability. but we ve made so many improvements to the core algorithm. in some cases, we ve improved the core algorithm by 80%, so the cpu usage, computer usage, is dramatically less. the results speak for themselves. the system, despite being at all time highs of usage, is fast. it is more responsive than it was before the takeover. we have also added longform tweets and we have added, you can now post videos up have added, you can now post videos up to two hours. we are rolling out our subscriber programmes, so people
was because of bots, twitter was filled with bots. looking back at it now, was there a little bit of you that thought maybe i have overpaid or maybe i don t want to do this or want to get out of this? yes, the problem was the publicly stated user numbers were in excess of the real user numbers. i ve heard you talk about that. yes. looking back at it now, was that the only reason you wanted to pull out? yes. that was literally the issue. let s say you buy a warehouse full of goods and you are told that less than 5% of the goods in the warehouse are broken. but then you actually look into the warehouse and it turns out 25% of the things are broken. you would be like, huh,
i probably would not be in favour. it would help twitter, i suppose, if tiktok was banned because then people would spend more time on twitter and less time on tiktok. but even though that could be, even if it would help twitter, i would be generally against banning of things. 0k. do generally against banning of things. ok. do you feel sometimes that your many business interests might get in the way of you having an opinion? for example, tesla has major connections in china. you wouldn t have a certain opinion on something orfeel have a certain opinion on something or feel uncomfortable about saying something because of your other business interests elsewhere? [30 i business interests elsewhere? do i look business interests elsewhere? din i look uncomfortable? actually, i do, to be honest. look. tesla has activities around the world and so does space x. once in awhile, those things do come into conflict. but