Person: Elon Musk

Every year Andrew Brown, Executive Director of East 72 Dynasty Trust, joins us to make some bold predictions for the year ahead.

Today, we’re covering a range of topics today from a world-first global treaty on plastic waste to why Elon Musk told Disney CEO Bob Iger to go f- himself.

This episode, it’s another fast 3, as promised. What’s on the agenda? Simon has an update about Elon Musk’s microchips that he plans to insert in our brains

Sascha and Alec discuss the story behind Threads and ask a big question that we were left with when we realised Threads was pretty much a clone of Twitter. What are the rules around just copying your competitors products?

It's our final episode for the year. Since launching at the end of April, we’ve released 149 episodes, written a quarter of a million words in notes, won Best Business Podcast at this year’s Australian Podcast Award, and been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times - by you.

If your office is anything like ours, it's been obsessed with a new artificial intelligence chat bot that can do some pretty crazy things.

On this week's episode Trace, Blake & Craig give you a market update with some key dates to look out for this November.

So… what on earth is X - the everything app - that’s been a dream more than 25 years in the making for Elon Musk? Alec and Sascha discuss the idea of a super app, and will Elon be able to create it?

In April, Elon Musk signed a deal to buy the social media platform for $44 billion. Months later, he tried to walk away from the deal claiming too many fake accounts and Twitter has sued him to enforce the sale. As the court date gets closer, both sides are making moves. So we wanted to check in on the court case and keep up with what is happening.

I’m not sure if you’re aware, there’s been a lot happening in the world of satellite internet recently. In late July, two of Europe’s biggest satellite internet operators - - announced a merger. Why? They said they want to better compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink. Then, Starlink was in the headlines after parts of one of their rockets crashed down to earth and landed in a paddock in rural Australia. Thankfully, no one was hurt. But it did get us thinking here at The Dive. For an industry that is sending thousands of satellites up into the sky, there is very little said about it. And we had a lot of questions. Today Alec and Sascha try to answer them, and ask the question - what’s the go with satellite internet?

Last week an Elon Musk email was leaked where he said, "Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla." It led to a big conversation at the Equity Mates office, about whether working from home just a phase, and will there eventually be pressure to return to the office on the horizon? Sascha and Darcy examine 'What is the new normal for work life balance?'

GDP data last week came in stronger than expected, with heat everywhere except the one place it matters most. Elon Musk wants everyone in the office, except the 10% of people he plans to sack, while lithium prices tanked on some FUD out of Goldman Sachs and Malaysia has banned chicken exports. All this and more on this week's Comedian v Economist.

On the weekend Elon tweeted: Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users. Then he hit pause on his takeover deal with Twitter. Then all hell broke loose.

There is never a shortage when it comes to news in the world of crypto, that's for sure! Today we look back at the big stories of the last week, and as always, there's been more than a few! Tracey, Blake and Craig talk about the thing that's got everyone's tongues wagging - Elon buying Twitter - but more importantly, they look at what that means for Doge, and more broadly - the implication for Crypto-Twitter. Then they talk about Binance, and how they've been plagued by a run of unfortunate PR accidents, look at the approval of ETFs in the Aussie sharemarket, and do a wrap up of the NFT market.

It has been a big week in investing news… Elon Musk has launched a hostile takeover (!) of one of the world’s largest social media companies Twitter, and Netflix’s share price plummeted 35% after some disappointing first quarter results. After so much market drama in one week, we just had to jump behind the mics and help break down the who, what, where, when & why.