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"The best time you want to interview someone is the day they were fired."
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2:15Now PlayingBen Mezrich on Elon Musk and his Twitter takeover: "It was complete madness. And I had some really wonderful sources in there who were just, because he fired people and then realized that he hadn't made them sign NDAs. So immediately they called me. So I was getting phone calls from people the day they were fired, telling me, and that's the best time you want to interview someone is the day they were fired."
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