X CEO Linda Yaccarino gives tense interview at Code Conference

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[@user-lc8mf5cs8t]

1:10 she didn’t answer whether he consulted her which clearly he did not. It seems as though it’s the first time she’s even hearing about it.

[@m_a_s6069]

"We talk about everything" is code for "He tells me what to do".

[@marwanthe2oooth]

“How to betray your friends in an interview”

[@earthlinginspace9825]

Good questions by Julia at the conference

[@user-lc8mf5cs8t]

4:20 Yoel seemed to be warning her that Elon would turn on her, just as he turned on Yoel, and that she too could receive death threats when that happens.

[@brigd]

Insubordination will get you no where.

[@OompaPompano]

​@@brigdBootlick

[@tatata1543]

She is being setup, Musk had that disastrous poll which gave him a result that he, given his massive ego, never expected. His solution was to put a patsy in place who has no input to or idea what the hell is going on but can nevertheless be blamed when it all goes south.

[@fatalconceit9713]

Roth was shown to be abusing his power at Twitter by suppressing and censoring many important voices. Elon merely shone a light on what the public deserved to know.

[@michaelthomson5125]

@@brigd It shouldn't cause you to get death threats and have to move house.

[@303Lyons303]

It was painful to watch...😂

[@johnc1315]

poor Linda has that dear in the headlights look. How can somebody use so many words to say so little?

[@mrrobot8973]

So obvious she’s lying and rambling to keep her job.

[@GlobalPenguin2012]

It’s so obvious she isn’t running X and has not much clue with what Elon wants to do

[@eschaton2834]

​@@NarinderxBaliSo she's HR?

[@jacoblee9455]

​@@NarinderxBaliShe's the CEO and can't even give yesterday's active user count even though she knew she was coming to this event.

[@TheMagicJIZZ]

​@@eschaton2834do you think Elon runs every company he founded? He works at Tesla full time. He has probably one meeting a week about X But he definitely tweets too much

[@petert6382]

Jas no idea

[@Mostly_bad]

Elon ambushed her, not the interviewer. He undermines her position when he makes public proclamations.

[@Mostly_bad]

@@dbavatar Then why couldn’t she say that? It’s because she has no idea what he’s tweeting minute to minute.

[@eschaton2834]

​@@dbavatarwhat are you on?

[@user-lc8mf5cs8t]

@@dbavatarYes, he announced it on TwitterX

[@user-lc8mf5cs8t]

Correction: he said it in an interview. “… reason we’re moving to a small monthly payment for use of X system is it’s the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots.”

[@zeitgeistx5239]

@@dbavatarfound the Apartheid Stan.

[@zerodiscount8812]

This is hilarious

[@andrewhooper7603]

You're laughing. Powerful people are showing their ass and looking ridiculous and you're laughing.

[@tatata1543]

This is what a car crash, resulting in a dumpster fire and triggering a Tesla battery inferno looks like.

[@HelloWorld-hb7yt]

Elon gives orders to Linda..

[@angelododaro766]

That was a dirty move by CNBC.

[@BowserHunter-ui7hk]

This lady has no idea wtf she is doing as a ceo

[@KamilAliAgrawala]

Musk's ego bit off more than he can chew. It's good these billionaires get a dose of reality.

[@trigremlin]

What are you talking about? X keeps winning.

[@KamilAliAgrawala]

@@trigremlin Yea if winning is more than half of your top 1k clients in advertising leaving, and your product is so bad that your first post privatization marquee events, twitter blue, launch got scraped just two days after the release sure. Forget everything, numbers do not lie, Musk bought Twitter at $44 billion, current valuation from Musk's own math drum roll... $4billion. All things mentioned here are confirmed by a simple google search. Good luck all.

[@user-vj9hb3gy6d]

@@trigremlin winning what actually?

[@AB-wf8ek]

​​​@@trigremlin I only use Twitter to follow tech news, but for some reason it keeps recommending posts from rightwing wingnuts sharing gross videos of insects crapping parasites out there butts. Seems like a huge fail to me.

[@sams8502]

She is a Gwynne Shotwell, doing Operations and Business not actually CEO calling the shots of the future. People need to relax.

[@user-oi4xx7dk4d]

One on stage was prepared, and it wasn't Linda.

[@virtualdrudgery]

this is like an episode of Silicon Valley 😂

[@SaschaPallenberg]

1:22 prime example for a reality distortion field

[@richardwolf6269]

Not an ambush interview at all! If you can’t take the heat you shouldn’t be in the kitchen.

[@dmw798]

Watch the whole interview, it's comedy gold but so cringe.

[@richardwiley1949]

She's the scapegoat.

[@user-iq6cc3df3l]

“If you want to work for me, Elon Musk, you’d better learn to be ‘hardcore.’ Otherwise I will accept your resignation immediately.” (I’m teasing of course. Right now I’m almost finished reading “Elon Musk” and it is quite the ride. I’m ambivalent on Musk a bit as I think he has huge strengths and huge weaknesses. But he does get things done so you can’t exactly simply reject his methods. On the other hand, I’ve thought about it and when I was working I don’t think I could’ve handled working for him.)

[@mrrobot8973]

Well because you know most people hated working with him.

[@michaeluehlein5119]

Why don't you ask things about her and stop talking about Elon Musk the whole interview. She has an impressive background and more people should hear this.

[@adityag485]

Cause the interview was about X and Elon constantly tweets about X, so Julia is asking if that's the end goal and Linda doesn't seem to know if it is or isn't-I am an Elon fan and own Tesla stock

[@johnmoran1334]

Yes she has an agenda

[@johnmoran1334]

Julia

[@m_a_s6069]

I love when Yaccarino pretends to be the CEO. The AI that erases the puppetmaster's strings works well, too.

[@anthonyrios3178]

I'm coming for Elon, X and whoever leads them

[@salflores1202]

This was so pathetic of Linda.

[@20KADAYHERESWHATSHAPPENING]

I wonder 💭 how much people with pay ?

[@OddWoz]

Chuckles 🤭

[@theharsh2005]

I like her. I can understand why cnDNC or msDNC wont like it

[@trigremlin]

Fun fact, Linda used to be chairman of global advertising & partnerships for NBCUniversal. They're just mad she's not on their team anymore.

[@7_of_9]

I would like to see X pay me royalty in Dogecoin as payment.

[@michaelthomson5125]

Crypto is a scam and is dead. May as well be paid in beanie babies.

[@paradisecove4146]

Elon and Linda.... forever in love 💕 💒 💍

[@mrrobot8973]

Who doesn’t want to work with Elon? Ask the creators of Tesla how working with him is. Or ask the creators of PayPal. Etc

[@briankennedy2013]

She looks angry

[@CinePhil101]

Fiasco

[@BenNuProductions]

Julia was a terrible interviewer to Linda.

[@olivergroning6421]

Watch the full interview! Disclaimer: It is so smug, incompetent and idiotic it will make you feel 100% over-qualified to be CEO of a (still) multi-billion doller Tech company.

[@vaidas_ma]

Dense interview*, Linda has zero idea what she's talking about

[@grandmiserthe3rd434]

Because confronting Communism can be expensive .....!!!

[@JayEs31]

That was a poor interview. It was poor “gotcha” journalism. Shameful that they ambushed her in this way. Julia did a very poor job with the interview tbh.

[@djonan]

Poor baby CEO can't handle questions....get a real job and get off the internet, nerd

[@goodbooks5134]

Why are these people so angry about Elon, X, and freedom of speech? Also, very rude... they want to argue instead of asking questions. On the other hand, Linda owned them!

[@adityag485]

Not really, Linda didn't even know what was going on, people arent angry they are just curious, and I am an Elon fan

[@ZOA360]

Inviting a vocal critic about the platform and pretending it wasn't intentional, not telling the CEO, and forcing them to address the criticism is not journalism it's purposely proactive and unprofessional.

[@Razermantis7649]

lol loser

[@BurkyB]

CNBC never has anything good to say about Elon or any of his companies, it’s kinda sad.

[@michaelthomson5125]

Stop lying. Linda was told he was coming on and given opportunity to cancel.

[@andrewhooper7603]

Cry about it

[@pennyking3823]

I can't stand Elon Musk. She just seems weird

[@ThreatCultureMedia]

There was nothing "tense" about this interview lol...come on guys.

[@dangrass]

seems that there was a predisposition to discount this woman's capabilities in order to advance a predetermined narrative....that Elon Musk is a bad guy. I mean, does anyone disrespect Gwynne Shotwell over at SpaceX? It's no wonder Yaccarino reacted with disgust at this interview.

[@adityag485]

They didn't discount her capabilities, they discounted her knowledge everyone saw Elon's tweet about switching it over to a subscription service and she didn't even know about it, no cause Shotwell doesn't even get much attention...and everyone knows both at Space X and Tesla Elon is thwe shot caller

[@lumberjackdreamer6267]

Y’all magat still in love with the muskrat?

[@rmriwatch]

Did you watch the full interview? It was embarrassing, a confident CEO would have easily navigated it with facts and numbers, she did not it was all hot air. Her whole demeanour was off.

[@lumberjackdreamer6267]

@@rmriwatch but she’s in the Elon cult, and that’s all that matters.

[@gabb05]

the Code organizers clearly set her up, the interviewer was aggressive. She still didn't do well though. She should be able to steer and handle that i would think

[@marekdg]

No the organisation let her and her team know early in the morning. Privately and directly to her team. After that they offered her to go before Yoel instead of the original planning. She insisted to be after him. They even asked her if she was still willing to go now that the guests changed. And she also answered that with a yes. Linda was just very poorly prepared, the interviewer asked her a couple of questions where she could have answered with more details (like other ceo do often) but she choose not to or didn’t knew those details :(

[@02nupe]

@@marekdg bingo!

[@michaelthomson5125]

She wasn't set up and was given multiple opportunities to pull out of the interview.

[@taeketuinstra9817]

In that position, you have to be able to handle ANY interviewer.

[@Ben-nk3ro]

Ambushing Linda as the conference organizers did is a disgrace. Julia your dismissive attitude to the hurt Linda must have felt is shameful.

[@jacobwatson3781]

Victimhood, only losers talk like that about X.

[@trigremlin]

Agree, it was a bad performance from the interviewer, but I think Linda did the best she could in a hostile room. Wishing the best for X, Elon, and Linda!

[@jacobwatson3781]

​@@trigremlinNo, they were fair questions. How people scrap their knees slurping Elon is amazing. She showed that she isn't really a CEO and she doesn't know what to do with Elon.

[@vaidas_ma]

the disgrace here that people like Linda are ceo's without having even a clue what she's doing. Not a single question answered, just going through the monologue so out of topic that it's painful. She kept answering without even hearing the questions first.

[@helenhart7556]

What an unmitigated disaster of an interview. Yaccarino fail!

[@trigremlin]

I love X, Elon, and Linda!

[@njain1983]

Julia seemed very proud of the planned ambush. What would have American journalist done had Elon and his many companies wouldn't have been there, talked about Kardashian's on Financial/Technology programs? Elon should start charging royalty from all these journalists

[@vimalvinod1832]

You like worshipping a billionaire who doesn’t care about you?

[@njain1983]

@@vimalvinod1832 you really have great comprehension and inference capabilities. Should I assume you like obsessing about someone just because s/he is successful and you are salty that s/he doesn't care about you?