The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.
The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.
It wasn’t just him though, he put up less than half the money. Other investors and lenders backed that price and hoped to profit after the purchase. I think it’s fair to say that the market valued Twitter + Elon at the price he paid, and was initially willing to pay more than what Twitter was trading at because they bought into the idea that he’d do good things with it.
Elon only wanted to back out after tech stocks overall dropped further following an increase in inflation concerns (they were already down, providing an opportunity for the buyout, but continued to fall after the deal). But most tech stocks have since recovered those losses and the nasdaq is up about 10% from where it was at the time of the deal.
The amount the Saudis are willing to pay to kill the platform so it can’t support the next Arab Spring and the amount “the market” thinks the company is legitimately valued at for non-ulterior motives are two very different things.
Him paying the full amount doesn’t really factor into my point, which is that Twitter wasn’t that valuable.