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.
  • alcamtar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      he can double it.

      You must be buying all the shares you can then!

      Narrator: he wasn’t

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      1 year ago

      he can double it

      Can he, though? Or was the worth inflated beforehand?

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        1 year 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.