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Elon Musk’s X is now valued at less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price, according to a new estimate from investor Fidelity.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Haha the poor company is only worth 11 billion. Fuckin' worthless. Surely Elon can't do anything to influence the world with one of his companies barely worth anything.

But I am glad it's value is going down. Twitter sucks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

79% is closer to 1/5, it's down to 9.24 billion.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

9.4 billion is the value mentioned on the article. 78.7% devaluation.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He tossed 33 billion dollars (so far) in the trash.

If Trump wins and the fascists triumph and his twitter buyout is seen as instrumental to that... well, good job I guess. He'll still never recoup that amount from trump government handouts. It's a ridiculous amount of money.

If Trump loses he'll have thrown away the money and his reputation for... nothing. A true business genius.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

This is not about money but about ideology. They want fascism to win in the US and they'll pay any amount of money.