{"id":271804,"date":"2026-01-30T11:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271804\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:15:08","slug":"mark-little-interview-i-remember-it-vividly-he-was-so-modest-he-was-a-completely-different-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/271804\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Little interview: \u2018I remember it vividly. He was so modest, he was a completely different Elon Musk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Mark Little on the old Twitter, tech\u2019s dark turns and his positive blueprints for the future\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former RT\u00c9 broadcaster, tech executive and founder Mark Little\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IB Mark Little.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former RT\u00c9 broadcaster, tech executive and founder Mark Little<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Within tech and media circles, there are a lot of pound-shop Mark Littles. These are people who talk about things as if they know what\u2019s really going on, but are guessing or projecting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">People like me, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Little on the old Twitter, tech\u2019s dark turns and his positive blueprints for the future Former RT\u00c9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8819,2334,72,969,605,61,60,14735,251,19247],"class_list":{"0":"post-271804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-spotify","16":"tag-technology-news","17":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}