• emax_gomax@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    I mean buying twitter at a massive premium was a consequence. Although yeah, he just pooled together other people to pay for it :/.

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      28 days ago

      It was an inconvenience to be sure, he has a metric f*** ton of money but it’s not liquid assets. He got a lot of people to come in and fund it and then took loans against a small amount of his Tesla stock.

      Realistically though it didn’t put him in any serious trouble, any ended up with a propaganda media company.