A year after he bought Twitter for $44 billion, Musk thinks the company is now worth $19 billion, a 55 percent drop.

Let’s recap what he did to Twitter, I will go first:

  • Changed the original name Twitter to X.
  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    It’s obscene that someone can destroy so much value and not go bankrupt. It should not be possible.

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      8 months ago

      The value only exists on paper. He halved it, he can double it. Happens all the time.

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          8 months ago

          He absolutely paid an inflated price. It was hovering around $40/share before he put in the offer of $54/share. So he and the other investors overpaid by quite a bit.