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Hi! My name is Kurt Wagner, and I’m a business and technology journalist with Bloomberg who has covered Twitter for over a decade. This week I published my first book, Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter’s Soul. It’s a story about Musk’s takeover of Twitter, but also a story about immense power, free speech, eccentric billionaires, and the many important dominoes that fell before the deal was even possible. You can read an excerpt here for free, and read the review in The New York Times.
Twitter has always been an anomaly as a company – its cultural influence vastly outweighs its business success, and that remains today even as Twitter has morphed into X. A big part of the book centers of the relationship between Dorsey and Musk, and how that relationship helped change the social network forever.
You can read more of our coverage on Twitter and Elon Musk here, and if you’d like to subscribe to our free daily tech newsletter, here’s where you can do so. Ask me anything!