By now you’ve probably seen footage of Elon Musk’s remarks at the New York Times DealBook Summit last night. This is an annual summit that brings together business leaders, and several of them are interviewed on-stage. Normally it’s not particularly newsworthy. Anytime you gather together a bunch of corporate CEO’s and business owners, you typically get a lot of carefully choreographed language. It’s all very brand-safe, by design.
But this year’s DealBook Summit was unique, mainly because of this one moment. It came during Musk’s interview with CNBC host Andrew Ross Sorkin. Sorkin began by asking Musk about the ongoing advertiser boycott of X, and whether Musk is desperate to win those advertisers back. Here’s what Musk said in response:
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