Maybe Twitter isn't real life

This week on Great Chat, The New York Times piece about San Francisco's "struggling" six-figure earners has Helen and Ashley doing the math on their early-20s rent checks. Then: the New York congressional primary results, where the biggest Twitter personalities got the fewest votes (and the guy with no following won??). Ryan Petersen calls remote work "white collar fraud," the internet responds, and it's actually kind of productive? And very sadly, Om Malik passed away at 59, and the outpouring from the tech community was unlike anything we've seen in years. What made him irreplaceable — and what does it mean that we can't imagine who fills that role today? Mercury is back as the headline sponsor for year two of Great Chat. Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust; Members FDIC. This podcast is edited by Eric Johnson from ⁠⁠LightningPod