This is a short transcript excerpt of Reed Hastings (Netflix co-founder) speaking about Elon Musk. Hastings praises Musk as "the bravest, most creative person on the planet," defends his spending on Twitter/X and his commitment to free speech, and expresses sympathy for Musk’s agenda despite disagreeing with his style.
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Since you are a Twitter user, I should ask. And you're on there all the time. What do you think? What's going on? I'm excited. I'm excited. Elon Musk is the bravest, most creative person on the planet. I mean, you know, what he's done in multiple areas is phenomenal. You know, his style is different than like I'm trying to be like a really steady, respectable leader. You know, he doesn't care. He's just like out there, you know, but think of a guy who's spending 44 billion. He could have built a mile long yacht for 44 billion. Okay, but it's like not good for the planet. Doesn't. He's not interested. He's in for. You think what he's doing is good for the planet. I am 100% convinced that he is trying to help the world in all of his endeavors. Okay? And he's trying to help the world on that one because he believes in free speech and that's power for democracy and that there's an option. Now how he goes about it again, you know, it's not how I would do it, but I'm deeply respectful and I'm amazed that people are like so nitpicky on him. On yeah, sure, the blue check mark, he's making a mess of something or not, you know, but it's like, give the guy a break. He just spent all this money to try to make it much better for democracy and society to have a more open platform. And I am sympathetic to that agenda. Well, that's.