on masking twitter aside, th past year brought discoverie both good and bad in the sector jake ward has more for us. 2022 saw the enormous potential and the enormous risks of technology play out over a single year there were a lot of promises made that wound up going nowhere or worse the biggest, of course, with crypto, the stuff of super bow commercials and overnight and in 2022 in flames are sa bankman-fried, founder of ftx, became the face of a crisi which wiped out individual investors and deeply wounded the industry until investigators closed in and ha him arrested in the bahamas. big tech companies, symbols of analyst growth, flailed this year as the economy suffered medicine from the trillion dollar valuation last year t 268 billion dollars this year. advertising fell apart and a blue billions on its founder stream of the metaverse whic we will work and play in tech companies laid off tens o thousands of people. no one tech company grab the headlines quite like twi
which wiped out individual investors and deeply wounded the industry until investigators closed in and ha him arrested in the bahamas. big tech companies, symbols of analyst growth, flailed this year as the economy suffered medicine from the trillion dollar valuation last year t 268 billion dollars this year. advertising fell apart and a blue billions on its founder stream of the metaverse whic we will work and play in tech companies laid off tens o thousands of people. no one tech company grab the headlines quite like twitter when elon musk stopped fightin and finally went through wit acquiring the company ha promised, every day brought new surprise from firing mor than half the staff to a wav of embarrassing impersonations to invite in trump and other band folks back. we still don t know what twitter will be what it al shakes out now that the stream a case making social media illegal responsible for what w post we don t know what social medi
the middle east, make sure they understand that i m not the u.s. government. i am an american company and i will be bound by the laws of the united states and other countries and i m going to follow those laws, but i m not here to represent the united states government s interest. i m not here to defend it nor am i here to criticize it. that s not what i do. i m a businessman. errol, there will obviously be some maybe conflicts that have to be sorted out. the trump team obviously sees this business background not just at state potentially but other departments and agencies as a plus, as a benefit. oh, absolutely. for state in particular exxon mobil had something like 268 billion dollars in revenue last year. this is not a small company by any means. they re in some ways bigger than many local governments, right? if he had been the governor of