Elon Musk refrained from discussing the collapsed Twitter deal as he addressed an audience of Muggles in Sun Valley on Saturday, two sources attending the conference told Reuters.
In an extensive interview, musk Sources said most of his time was spent admiring the virtues of colonizing Mars and increasing the birth rate on Earth. Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. and the rocket company Space X, has long been an advocate of establishing a civilization on the Red Planet.
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Musk said earlier this week that he would do his best to help what he called the “underpopulation crisis,” following a media report that said his twin with a top executive at his brain-chip start-up Neuralink were children.
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He described how birth rates are declining in wealthy countries, a topic he has explored extensively on Twitter.
The billionaire entrepreneur took the stage at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, an annual gathering of media and technology executives in Idaho, less than 24 hours after he announced he was closing his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter Inc. are ending.
The interview was conducted by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company founded by Musk and several others.
Musk’s arrival at the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference this week dealt a blow to an off-record event where making headlines is usually beyond the prying eyes of the media.
“It sounds like a complete mess,” a senior media official said on condition of anonymity ahead of the interview. “Man makes his own rules… I hate being Twitter, where you have to take this guy. Seriously.”
Sun Valley is typically covered up like an athleisure version of the Met Gala, with photographers capturing the arrival of wool-veiled media moguls and journalists coveting power-lunches at the Konditorei Café on the property.
A Hollywood power-broker expressed hope Friday that the Musk interview will bring to life the staid, mushy atmosphere of the convention this year.
Hours later, Musk’s lawyers delivered an eight-page letter to Twitter, saying he planned to scrap the deal to acquire the social network. The document, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleges that Twitter failed to respond to repeated requests for information over the past two months, or failed to obtain its consent before taking action that could harm its business. would affect, such as the sacking of two key officials.
Until that time, conversations in media circles focused on the re-evaluation of Wall Street’s streaming business in the wake of the loss of Netflix Inc.
Hollywood, which has generally been untouched by recession, is suddenly worried about how the deteriorating economy will affect their multi-billion dollar investments in streaming services, a digital media executive said.
“For the first time, people know that the economy affects the entertainment business, as inflation affects the churn,” said the digital media executive, referring to customers leaving a service. “People are now saying, ‘Wow, will people really pay for three of these things?'”
After Musk’s announcement that a chief executive saw the elephant in the room, Saturday’s remarks may have been uncomfortable for two conference attendees: Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal and Chief Financial Officer Ned Sehgal.
One of Musk’s last public messages to Agarwal came in the form of a poop emoji tweet in response to the Twitter CEO’s defense about how the company accounts for spam bots.
This story has been published without modification in text from a wire agency feed.