Extremely hardcore :
inside Elon Musk's Twitter
by Zoë Schiffer
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When Elon Musk took over Twitter, two versions of reality emerged. In one, he was a free-speech crusader, a fearless visionary who could grab back power from Twitter's entitled workforce, motivate them to get "extremely hardcore," and multiply Twitter's profit and potential by orders of magnitude. In the other reality, there was the truth. Pulled from hundreds of hours of inside interviews with more than sixty employees, thousands of pages of internal documents, Slack messages, presentations, as well as court filings and congressional testimony, Extremely Hardcore is the true story of how Musk reshaped the world's online public square into his own personal megaphone. Despite having workers with a decade and a half of experience confronting Twitter's most difficult problems - from massive engineering infrastructure challenges to tricky policy decisions that could sway elections - Musk decided there was only one voice that mattered: his own. You'll hear from those employees who witnessed the destruction of their workplace firsthand. There's the machine-learning savant who went all-in on Twitter 2.0 before getting betrayed by his new CEO, the father whose need for healthcare swept him into Musk's inner circle, the trust and safety expert who became the subject of a harassment campaign his former boss incited, and the many other employees who tried to save the company from their new boss's worst instincts, and paid the price. This is the story of Twitter, but it's also a chronicle of the post-pandemic labor movement, a war between reckless executives and a workforce newly awakened to their rights and needs. Juicy, character-driven, and filled with unbelievable revelations, Extremely Hardcore is the definitive, fly-on-the-wall story of how Elon Musk lit $44 billion on fire and burned down Twitter. It's the next best thing to being there, and you won't have to sleep in the Twitter office to get the scoop
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Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
2024, Penguin Publishing Group
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Extreem intens: Twitter onder Elon Musk
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Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
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Extremely hardcore :: inside Elon Musk's Twitter
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Extremely Hardcore :: : Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
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"On February 12, 2023, Elon Musk sat on his private jet, fuming."
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Extreem intens €27,50
De verwachtingen waren hooggespannen toen Elon Musk Twitter (nu X) kocht. De visionair achter Tesla en SpaceX had een vurige overtuiging om de online vrijheid van meningsuiting te beschermen en de mensheid te helpen. ‘Ik deed het niet voor het geld,’ aldus Musk. Maar vanaf dag één ontspoorde het nieuwe avontuur van Musk volledig.
Extreem Intens is het ware verhaal van hoe Musk Twitter veranderde in zijn persoonlijke megafoon, op basis van honderden uren interviews met meer dan zestig werknemers, duizenden pagina’s interne documenten, Slack-berichten en documenten uit vele rechtszaken van de afgelopen periode.
Aan het woord komen werknemers die de vernietiging van hun geliefde bedrijf in hele korte tijd meemaakten. Ze zagen hoe hun jarenlange strijd tegen desinformatie en discriminatie binnen enkele maanden teniet werd gedaan. Ze probeerden staande te blijven tijdens vele willekeurige ontslagrondes. Ze deden er alles aan om het bedrijf te redden van de slechtste instincten van hun nieuwe baas.
Dit is het verhaal van hoe Elon Musk 44 miljard dollar uitgaf om Twitter te redden en het vervolgens neersabelde. Het is ook een kroniek over de post-pandemische arbeidersbeweging, een strijd tussen leidinggevenden en personeel, en over rechten en behoeften in organisaties, en de toekomst van onze democratie. Het is een extreem intense ervaring, of zoals Elon Musk zou zeggen: extremely hardcore.
Let op: dit boek verschijnt 13 februari. Bestellingen worden in de week van verschijnen verwerkt en geleverd.
Nederlands | Vertaald uit het Engels | Paperback | 9789083384825 | Verschijnt: 13 februari 2024 | +/- 350 pagina’s
Zoë Schiffer is de hoofdredacteur van Platformer, waar ze verslag doet over Twitter, X Corp. en Elon Musk. Daarvoor was ze senior verslaggever bij The Verge, waar ze verslag deed over de arbeidersbeweging in Silicon Valley. Haar werk is verschenen in New York Magazine, de San Francisco Chronicle en Vox. Ze is verschenen op CNN, NBC, CNBC en de BBC.
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