Elon Musk said over the weekend that Twitter's advertising revenue has fallen by 50% since he bought the company, and that it's not cash flow positive.
I don’t think it was even that. He was so 100% going to lose the fight to not buy Twitter that even for someone with his resources it wasn’t worth fighting. He made a weak attempt to embarrass Twitter into backing out due to public opinion, but didn’t really have any options after that. He just fucked up that magnificently with the initial contract.
Musk didn’t pay $44bn. He paid $26bn, then $5bn was from other investors and the remaining $13bn was a loan Twitter took out to buy itself on Musk’s behalf.
Yay, leveraged buyouts! They totally aren’t used to avoid tax and kill businesses!
It was never worth 44 bn in the first place
Anything is worth whatever somebody is willing to pay for it.
This dumb bastard just happened to be willing to pay $44 billion.
Actually, Musk didn’t want to pay anything for Twitter, but was willing to pay $44 billion to avoid the discovery process.
Excellent point, lest anyone forget that he was really just running his mouth and got too far in before the mania dropped.
I don’t think it was even that. He was so 100% going to lose the fight to not buy Twitter that even for someone with his resources it wasn’t worth fighting. He made a weak attempt to embarrass Twitter into backing out due to public opinion, but didn’t really have any options after that. He just fucked up that magnificently with the initial contract.
True but It is like a reverse Schrödinger valuation.
When EM offered 44B, that was twitter’s value until the transaction was complete.
Now it is only worth what someone else will pay for it…
Musk didn’t pay $44bn. He paid $26bn, then $5bn was from other investors and the remaining $13bn was a loan Twitter took out to buy itself on Musk’s behalf.
Yay, leveraged buyouts! They totally aren’t used to avoid tax and kill businesses!