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John Cook

@johnjcook
9 posts
2022-05-21
For those interested, we reached out to the principals for comment regarding this story at ~9 a.m. eastern yesterday (Wednesday May 18).
2022-05-21 View on X
Insider

Docs: SpaceX paid $250K to settle a flight attendant's allegation that Elon Musk exposed himself and offered a horse in exchange for an erotic massage in 2016

Complications for the Twitter deal? Bill Chappell / NPR : Elon Musk denies a report accusing him of sexual misconduct on a SpaceX jet Abram Brown / Forbes : How The Sexual Miscondu...

2022-05-20
For those interested, we reached out to the principals for comment regarding this story at ~9 a.m. eastern yesterday (Wednesday May 18).
2022-05-20 View on X
Insider

Docs: SpaceX paid $250K to settle a flight attendant's allegation that Elon Musk exposed himself and offered a horse in exchange for an erotic massage in 2016

- A flight attendant for SpaceX said Elon Musk asked her to “do more” during a massage, documents show.

2022-02-08
today i learned that peter thiel champions unfettered speech across digital platforms https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-08 View on X
New York Times

Meta announces that Peter Thiel, one of Facebook's first institutional investors and longest-serving directors, will step down from Meta's board this year

The tech billionaire, who has been on the board of the company formerly known as Facebook since 2005, is backing numerous politicians in the midterm elections.

2021-04-08
@tomscocca i found this sentence delightful: “Facebook has portrayed TikTok as a threat to U.S. values.”
2021-04-08 View on X
Bloomberg

Peter Thiel says he is a “pro-Bitcoin maximalist”, but BTC threatens fiat money and might be used by China to undercut the US dollar's reserve currency status

Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist and conservative political donor, urged the U.S. government to consider tighter regulations …

2020-01-31
an enduring obsession of peter thiel and his minions has been the creation of public spaces where wealthy and powerful people can enjoy the benefits of notoriety while limiting the ability of their critics to be heard https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2020-01-31 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Pitch deck details Column, a paid social network centered on tech/business notables, with Aron Ping D'Souza as CEO; investor Sarah Cone later said she was CEO

unsolicited and without any indication that it was confidential or embargoed—two weeks ago in an attempt to have this publication as a prospective partner.” https://www.technologyr...

2019-10-30
In September, @jsrailton told @beckpeterson that any potential lawsuits against NSO Group over its hacking are “more likely ...going to come from companies than victims in the future.” Today Facebook and WhatsApp sued NSO Group https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2019-10-30 View on X
Washington Post

WhatsApp sues NSO Group after investigating an attack from last year that sent malware to 1,400 devices and targeted 100+ human rights defenders and journalists

Will Cathcart is head of WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook.  —  In May, WhatsApp announced that we had detected and blocked …

2019-10-24
another brilliant peter thiel exit https://pando.com/...
2019-10-24 View on X
Pando

Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr sell Pando, seven years after launching it, to ad-tech company BuySellAds, which bought Digg in 2018

If there is a single moment when it seemed like my journalism career suddenly caught fire, it was the 2006 Business Week cover story I wrote about the rise of Web 2.0 companies.

2019-10-23
it's weird that hundreds of extremely high-priced lawyers and bankers whose purported integrity undergirds the global financial system can conspire to convince investors that a company is worth $40 billion when it actually is worth maybe a tenth of that and no laws are broken?
2019-10-23 View on X
CNBC

WeWork says SoftBank will provide $5B in new financing and buy up to $3B in shares from existing shareholders, which would give SoftBank an 80% stake in WeWork

- CNBC's David Faber previously reported that SoftBank was seeking to take control of WeWork through a financing package.

2019-10-22
it's weird that hundreds of extremely high-priced lawyers and bankers whose purported integrity undergirds the global financial system can conspire to convince investors that a company is worth $40 billion when it actually is worth maybe a tenth of that and no laws are broken?
2019-10-22 View on X
CNBC

Sources: SoftBank to take control of WeWork, spending $4B-$5B on new funding and existing shares in The We Company, valuing it between $7.5B and $8B

KEY POINTS  — Softbank to spend $4 billion to $5 billion on new equity, existing shares, sources say.