CEO of X **QUITS** HUGE SHOCKER and L for Elon Musk :(

This is not on my bingo board at all.

Linda Yakarino

stepping down as CEO of X. Now remaining

mom, foodie, fashion enthusiast, Penn

State alum, and no longer CEO of X.

After two incredible years, I've decided

to step down as the CEO of X. When Elon

Musk and I first spoke of his vision for

X, I knew it would be the opportunity of

a lifetime to carry out the

extraordinary mission of this company.

Mind you, I was a big fan of Elon hiring

a CEO. I think it is brilliant that Elon

chose a powerful woman like Linda

because I think she's done great to

bring stability to X. In my opinion, I

think of her kind of like the Suzy for

Trump, you know? I really think Suzy

runs this show behind the scenes at the

Trump administration and I think she

absolutely kicks butt for Trump. Like

she is is the power broker behind the

scenes. In my opinion, Linda was kind of

like that for Elon at X. stability,

rationality,

uh you know, decision making in a way

that maybe removes some of that Elon

emotion. I think Suzie does that for

Trump as well. And so this is why like

to me Elon losing

uh Linda is like Trump losing Suzie. In

other words, this big background and

Linda was more in the public eye than

Suzie, but uh which makes I mean she

posts all the time on X, but it's ju in

my opinion just as big of a loss. Uh and

and so I think it's really sad. Uh but

let's see. I'm immensely grateful to

Elon for entrusting me with the

responsibility of protecting free

speech. Remind you, I'm such a big fan

of this because when I announced uh

running for governor in 2021, I got

censored by Facebook, Mark Zuck, who was

donating billions of dollar, well,

hundreds of millions of dollars to Gavin

Newsome. And I also got censored on X.

Both sides I got, well, it was before it

was AX, sorry, it was Twitter. So, both

sides I got censored. And these were all

Gavin Newsome shills.

So, I was a big fan of this and still am

to this day. turning the company around

and transforming X into the everything

app. Yeah, I mean so far we haven't

gotten like X payments. This has been

more of an idea, but we've gotten the

encrypted chat. We haven't solved the

bot problems. Uh we, you know, are

incorporating Grock, which is cool,

which apparently is now called Super

Grock because, you know, it's quote

unquote based. But okay, I'm incredibly

proud of the X team. The historic

business turnaround we have accomplished

together has been nothing short of

remarkable. We started with the critical

early work necessary to prioritize the

safety of users, especially children,

and restore advertiser confidence. This,

by the way, has been good. They've

definitely gotten advertisers to start

coming back to the platform, which is

fantastic.

Uh, so you know, somebody in the chat

says, "Linda was supposed to bring in

big ad money. I think she failed." No,

actually, I think she brought like I'm

pretty sure the New York Times did a

piece on this. New York Times ex

advertisers.

I think it was the New York Times, which

in fairness, if they're saying it, it's

kind of a it's a good thing, right? Uh

so

here, this was November's Financial

Times, I guess. Advertisers set to

return to X as they seek favor with Elon

Musk and and Trump. I wonder Oh,

wait a sec. If the advertisers were

maybe flowing in because they wanted to

cozy up to Trump and Musk, maybe Linda's

leaving because Musk's fallout with

Trump is ruining her ability to bring

advertisers back. Elon Musk support for

Donald Trump is set to boost X flagging

business with some marketers poised to

return to the social media platform in

order to seek favor with the incoming

administration. Media execs told the

Financial Times that some brands were

preparing to advertise on X again as the

billionaire owner was likely to gain an

influential role inside the White House.

Wow. You know, here we are less than a

year later and how the story has

changed. Brands have expressed concern

that Musk has stripped back moderation

with groups such as Disney, IBM, and

Apple leaving the platform last year.

Elon Musk responding by telling

companies to go f themselves for pausing

advertising. I think that's this button.

Go yourself.

Is that clear?

Yeah, I have that on my soundboard

along with this one.

Bullish catalyst.

Bullish catalyst. All right. Chief

executive market former executive

political leverage seeking political

leverages, the good graces of Elon, blah

blah blah blah blah. Okay. So now this

team has worked relentlessly from

groundbreaking innovations like

community notes. That's true. I have

loved community notes, by the way, and

Facebook has kind of like copied some of

this, right? X money to bring iconic

voices and content creators to the

platform. A monetization for creators,

right? That's kind of cool. Now, the

best is yet to come as X enters into a

new chapter with XAI. X is truly the

digital town square. This is a straight

up Elon line right here. For all voices

and the world's most powerful cultural

signal, we couldn't have achieved this

without the support of our users,

business partners, and the most

innovative team in the world. I'll

always be cheering you all on as you

continue to change the world. As always,

I'll see you on X. Wow, that's that's

huge. So, Elon losing Linda, I would not

be surprised at all if this is because

of the drama that we've gotten between

Musk and Trump, which at first, at least

looking at sort of these Financial Times

pieces here, brought in advertisers. And

Linda's probably like, "This is great.

We're riding a wave." Maybe now she's

seeing a reversal and people are getting

away from X again as Elon forms this new

party, doubles down on the Epstein files

and else. So, uh, let's see what uh some

some of the people in the chat write

here. Uh, Elon is a narcissist.

Uh, some people write here, "Nazi Grock

was too much for her." Ooh. Uh, Grock

will likely say she did nothing. Grock

will get rewritten. Oh.

Uh, let's see here. What else do we

have? They're planning to get more into

financial services. Elon probably wants

the CEO with a background closer to

that. I mean, but you could have

executives with that capability inside

the company without having to replace

the CEO, right? Uh, also Tik Tok news

here. Tik Tok preparing US app with

separate algorithm and codebase.

That's right. because they're planning

on introducing a totally separate app

for the US side. Uh let's see here.

We've got some of your other comments.

Elon's taking Elon's Elon's taking L's

everywhere. That's not good.

Linda never brought the big ad to

accounts that she promised. Okay, that

was that's why we looked up the

Financial Times piece. So unclear here.

Somebody says, "Did Trump pay her off?"

It's poss who knows, maybe Mark

Zuckerberg bought her out, you know, and

and gave her a job. Uh let's see here.

She's going to work on the American Tik

Tok. Well, maybe. Uh she and Elon did

have some public spats in the past.

Yeah, I guess it's more like the recency

of this, right? This is very sudden and

it just comes at a really sensitive time

for Elon. Honestly, this sucks heavily

for Elon because I I I personally I said

this yesterday, too. I think he's at a

low point. He just lost his best friend

in the White House, which like how do

you mess that up? I hate to say it, but

dude, you were getting rides on Marine

One and Air Force One. You had the White

House in your back pocket and you

screwed it up for politicians being

politicians.

I don't know, man. I don't know. And and

so I think there might be some element

of Linda kind of like, all right, I I I

we've hit PX. It's time to, you know,

check out. I'm sure she's going to

announce she's going to have another job

somewhere else soon. But I have to say

that was not on my big board.

Why not advertise these things that you

told us here? I feel like nobody else

knows about this.

We'll we'll try a little advertising and

see how it goes.

Congratulations, man. You have done so

much. People love you. People look up to

you. Kevin Praath there, financial

analyst and YouTuber, Meet Kevin. Always

great to get your take.