Elon Musk / Tesla / SpaceX / Twitter / D.O.G.E.

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mpaer said:
I assume the great majority of the loss is from some really stupid Banks that backed Elonturds purchase
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Unlikely. I mean the banks are probably taking a loss if those valuations are correct unless they secured their loans with other collateral like Tesla stock. But equity always gets wiped out before debt.
 
Twitter losers

Elon Musk​

Investment: $33.5 billion commitment, consisting of Tesla shares and his own wealth, along with co-investors, including those listed below.
2024 value: $9.38 billion
Difference: -$24.12 Billion

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (and Kingdom Holding Co.)​

Investment: $1.89 billion
2024 value: $529.2 million
Difference: -$1.36 billion
Jack Dorsey
Investment: $1 billion
2024 value: $280 million
Difference: -$720 million

Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder and board chairman
Investment: $1 billion
2024 value: $280 million
Difference: -$720 million

Sequoia Capital​

Investment: $800 million
2024 value: $224 million
Difference: -$576 million
 
mpaer said:
Twitter losers

Elon Musk​

Investment: $33.5 billion commitment, consisting of Tesla shares and his own wealth, along with co-investors, including those listed below.
2024 value: $9.38 billion
Difference: -$24.12 Billion

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal (and Kingdom Holding Co.)​

Investment: $1.89 billion
2024 value: $529.2 million
Difference: -$1.36 billion
Jack Dorsey
Investment: $1 billion
2024 value: $280 million
Difference: -$720 million

Larry Ellison, Oracle co-founder and board chairman
Investment: $1 billion
2024 value: $280 million
Difference: -$720 million

Sequoia Capital​

Investment: $800 million
2024 value: $224 million
Difference: -$576 million
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Not sure bin Talal is a loser. I mean yeah he lost money, but he helped buy a legitimatized platform that the Saudi government could likely get unfettered access to. He didn't lose money, this was opportunity cost for the House of Saud.
 
www.disruptionist.com

Elon Musk takes @America handle from X user to promote Donald Trump

The original @America user was a critic of both Musk and Trump.
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X owner Elon Musk has once again hijacked a rare coveted username from its original user.

This time, however, the takeover wasn’t for the good of X the company, it was so Musk could promote Donald Trump for president.

On Saturday, Musk appeared at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler Pennsylvania. However, earlier that day, Musk began promoting his pro-Trump Super PAC, called America PAC, using a brand new handle @America.

“Read @America to understand why I’m supporting Trump for President,” Musk’s new bio said as of approximately 1:30pm ET on Saturday, Oct. 5.

The @America handle appeared attached to a brand new account setup just this month, in October 2024. However, this rare, one-word geographic handle had already been long registered by another X user more than 14 years prior to Musk taking the handle from them, in September 2010.

According to a person familiar with the situation, X took the handle from the user much like how Musk’s social media company took the @X handle from its original registrant last year.
 
wmheel1287 said:
I can't fathom why good people don't immediately discontinue any involvement with him or his companies.
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He really is pretty terrible but he does have some great companies. SpaceX is about half the cost of Boeing's equivalent rocket. Boeing was bilking taxpayers for forever until a serious competitor got into the game.

The competition has caught up with their electric car offerings but Tesla still has the best self-driving technology out there And without Musk, I don't think we see the big companies introducing things that would replace greenhouse gas spewing cars anytime soon.

Starlink is a terrific way to get an internet service to people that usually can't have it.

I actually forgot this but Musk co-founded open AI which really gave us the first widespread consumer focused AI platform with ChatGPT.

And as much as folks complain about the Twitter, we all love nyc's posts which are all Twitter. It's a great platform for spreading information.

I think people use his companies because he's been involved with some pretty great companies.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
He really is pretty terrible but he does have some great companies. SpaceX is about half the cost of Boeing's equivalent rocket. Boeing was bilking taxpayers for forever until a serious competitor got into the game.

The competition has caught up with their electric car offerings but Tesla still has the best self-driving technology out there And without Musk, I don't think we see the big companies introducing things that would replace greenhouse gas spewing cars anytime soon.

Starlink is a terrific way to get an internet service to people that usually can't have it.

I actually forgot this but Musk co-founded open AI which really gave us the first widespread consumer focused AI platform with ChatGPT.

And as much as folks complain about the Twitter, we all love nyc's posts which are all Twitter. It's a great platform for spreading information.

I think people use his companies because he's been involved with some pretty great companies.
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Something about the South African take over of the Republican party along with the proud boys and the rest who want a minority rule of white folks. Musk, Thiel and the Qanon guy were teenagers in South Africa when apartheid ended and were part of the great white escape from Mandela's new government.
Just saying some immigrants can be good and bad just like Americans.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
He really is pretty terrible but he does have some great companies. SpaceX is about half the cost of Boeing's equivalent rocket. Boeing was bilking taxpayers for forever until a serious competitor got into the game.

The competition has caught up with their electric car offerings but Tesla still has the best self-driving technology out there And without Musk, I don't think we see the big companies introducing things that would replace greenhouse gas spewing cars anytime soon.

Starlink is a terrific way to get an internet service to people that usually can't have it.

I actually forgot this but Musk co-founded open AI which really gave us the first widespread consumer focused AI platform with ChatGPT.

And as much as folks complain about the Twitter, we all love nyc's posts which are all Twitter. It's a great platform for spreading information.

I think people use his companies because he's been involved with some pretty great companies.
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And I don't give a shit about any of it. Well meaning people should abandon anything and everything having to do with him as soon as reasonably possible. He's a cancer on humanity.
 
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