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.
Twitter was trading around $40 at the time he made the offer for $54 per share. At the current value, that equals $15 per share. The last time Twitter was trading at that value was 2017.
These are all rough numbers based on some graphs I looked over quickly.
If you want to play devils advocate on this topic you should understand what you’re talking about.
What? I’m not really sure what you’re trying to disprove here. We seem to be in agreement that the buyout sum didn’t match the trading price*.
*The price before Musk started manipulating it with his showboating.
it would be accurate to say Musk assigned the value of $44B to Twitter by paying that much for it because that’s how capitalism works. He instantly inflated the price by paying far over its previous market value in a stupid showboating maneuver, and has, in doing so (as well as his subsequent antics) totally screwed himself and his investors by causing it to lose 71% of that value.
Correct.