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What people don‘t seem to take into account here is that Elon was forced to buy the company due to a binding offer he made but later found out user numbers to b
by iamsanteri 3y ago
What people don‘t seem to take into account here is that Elon was forced to buy the company due to a binding offer he made but later found out user numbers to be manipulated and so on. He‘s already burned down the 40 billion market cap to less than 20 billion today and he doesn‘t have much to lose. He is meme-style trying to enjoy the blunder he made while having a tiny but an exponential chance he still may hit it big by doing something outright crazy such as his long-time aspiration of x.com (the everything company). He is finding out currently that social-human systems work very differently than engineering systems, and he is not very talented at all on the human side of things. Don‘t take him too seriously just as he doesn‘t take himself all that seriously either. And hey, there‘s always the upshot opportunity of it going big, but that is a tiny chance by know.
To me it looks like everyone who‘s trying to take him seriously by now with all this are making themselves laughing stock. And Musk couldn‘t care less.
For me the only problem is that I‘m a Tesla shareholder and I‘ve seen a sort of dilution and all his suffering first-hand, where a single share of mine has already turned into 15 since I bought it. Thus of course I have skin in the game, but I still consider this all as a big meme-like joke.
Soon we‘re all dead anyway, so let‘s not think about things too serious and money is just money for most people who have it. It‘s no bigger than life. Have fun and enjoy the ride, our 100 years on this planet are a sliver so we‘ll all be enjoying it in our own messed up ways. Elon does it this way.
This is how I see it.
- vlovich123 3y ago> What people don‘t seem to take into account here is that Elon was forced to buy the company due to a binding offer he made but later found out user numbers to be manipulated and so on. My understanding is that manipulated numbers would have been a legit reason to exit the deal but it turned out that Musk couldn’t provide that and thus was forced to go through with the offer. Am I misremembering?
- iamsanteri 3y agoThis could be the case, but he himself claims it to be more the way I said it. The details are obscure but I tend to believe his word rather than the passionate hater-horde and an army of mis-representers that are so many in number today. It’s Elon’s blunder so I don’t care all that much. Too bad for him!
- lolinder 3y agoIt's not a matter of taking Elon's word over the horde of haters, it's a matter of taking Elon's word over Elon's actions. If he had evidence that his offer to buy Twitter was based on false information, he would have gone to court to fight it. Instead he caved before the court date, presumably because his lawyers persuaded him he stood no chance.
- Mashimo 3y ago> but later found out user numbers to be manipulated and so on. I think he complained about bots on twitter before he made the offer.