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don't trust anyone who doesn't understand "idk I just wanted to" as a motivation

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The first thing to point out is that this deal makes no financial sense for Elon Musk. He's paying a premium for the stock, the total value of the acquisition is almost a fifth of his net worth, and there's no obvious way he's going to squeeze more money out of Twitter operations

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is the only person i trust to do elon musk analysis on this website. he really gets it. he knows elon doesn't give a shit about money at this point

5:57 PM · Apr 25, 2022Twitter Web App

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i don't think that's really true - he really wants humans on mars afaics, and that will be *really* expensive so more capital is better in that sense (and it means power in general, which can't hurt), but a billion here or there? he prob doesn't care too much