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Interested in seeing where the funding is coming from at that valuation. Potentially the biggest buyout of all time? Other buyouts of such scale involved compa
by anomatopoeia 8y ago
Interested in seeing where the funding is coming from at that valuation. Potentially the biggest buyout of all time?
Other buyouts of such scale involved companies with huge cash flows/profits - think RJR Nabisco, Hilton, TXU (big US utility).
Tesla of course is a very different animal. Hard to imagine any kind of conventional financing working for this type of deal.
Beyond the Saudis maybe some other SWF or deep pocketed individual investors?
- gonesilent 8y agoApple?
- CyberDildonics 8y agoOr Softbank. The Bank of Japan is printing money like crazy to keep the Yen from deflating. Softbank seems to intent on getting out of Yen and into assets while the Yen still has the value it does right now.
- trhway 8y agoChinese? Given their interest in electric cars, Gigafactory (https://electrek.co/2018/08/07/tesla-hiring-gigafactory-3-china/ https://electrek.co/2018/08/07/tesla-hiring-gigafactory-3-ch...) and solar and of course the amount of USD they have.
- qaq 8y agoWhy does is have to be beyond Saudis? it also could Qatar, China,UAE etc.
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