• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    1 year ago

    He’ll feel it because a lot of the deal was financed off of his Tesla stock. It isn’t that Musk will lose money from Twitter; he’ll lose some control over Tesla. Worse, it could push Tesla’s stock price down, which may be an issue as a lot of people shorted Tesla’s stock.

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      1 year ago

      Yep.

      And it is a lot of Tesla stock he had to put to cover that much.

      The banks won’t hold it or even accept it directly tho.

      Musk would have to sell all that stock, which would crash the stock price. Meaning he has to come up with the money from somewhere else.

      The whole thing is a house of cards and has a chance to completely wipe him out. He’s over leveraged, it’s not that complicated.