• altphoto@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    He doesn’t care. He wants it to tank because then he can buy it out and go fully private again.

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      2 days ago

      Except, to buy it out, he has to first pay the creditors for the value, because he used that as collateral to buy Twitter.

    • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      If I’m not mistaken the overwhelming majority of elons wealth is in company stock (including his other companies, not just Tesla)

      It might need to fall pretty damn low for him to be able to afford all outstanding shares.

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      2 days ago

      If the stock really tanks (I’ve heard the magic number is $114) his loans get called & he likely has to sell xAI or SpaceX to cover.