Musk is indeed the strongest topic king on the surface.
After Twitter announced on April 25 that he would "sell" Musk for $44 billion, the world's richest man quickly locked in the next hunting target, but I don't know if Buffett will agree this time.
Elon Musk: I'm going to buy Coca-Cola
Cocaine should also be reintroduced
The U.S. consumer goods giant Coca-Cola Company was "lucky" to be the latest hunting target for the world's richest man.
At 8:56 Beijing time on the 28th, Musk put another harsh word on his "new toy" Twitter: "Next I will acquire Coca-Cola and add cocaine again." ”
Musk currently has more than 86 million followers on Twitter. As soon as the tweet was posted, it caused heated discussion among netizens. In The Weibo-related topics, netizens expressed their own opinions, "God wants to make it perish, first let it go crazy" "When will it acquire the White House?" Others said Musk was "deliberately disgusting Buffett." ”
Cocaine was originally a recreational drug, extracted from coca leaf. 3,000 years ago, the Paleo Indians mixed grass ash and lime into coca leaves and put them in their mouths to chew, which could relieve fatigue and reduce pain, and even improve stress.
Coca-Cola, originally a cocaine-containing beverage, was popular throughout the United States as soon as it was introduced, and became popular all over the world after World War II, but at that time people did not realize the side effects of cocaine.
With the popularity of Coca-Cola, more and more people became addicted, and even there were reports of cocaine poisoning to death, which limited the use of cocaine, and Coca-Cola then removed cocaine from the formula.
Does Buffett agree?
Buffett is known to be quite "dedicated" to The Coca-Cola Company, having held it firmly since he bought it in 1988, and he himself has become a super fan of Coca-Cola on several public occasions, praising it.
Even in the shadow of soaring inflation, the epidemic, the central bank's interest rate hike, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and other layers of gloom, the pessimism of investors in the global market spread, Coca-Cola bucked the current, hit a record high, and has outperformed the S&P 500 index this year.
Before the U.S. stock market on Monday, Coca-Cola released its first quarter 2022 earnings report, which showed that its revenue and earnings per share exceeded Wall Street expectations.
In the first quarter of this year, Coca-Cola's net revenue was $10.491 billion, up 16% year-on-year, exceeding market expectations of $9.83 billion, and net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was $2.793 billion, up 24% year-on-year. As of the end of last year, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway held a 9.23 percent stake in The Coca-Cola Company and was Coca-Cola's largest shareholder.
Musk may become the strongest "monopolist" in history
Regardless of whether Musk really plans to buy Coca-Cola, at least for now, the idea of the world's richest man has always been difficult for the outside world.
From the acquisition of Twitter to the threat of buying a beverage giant, Musk's buying and buying can be described as a cross-border transaction.
The privatization of Twitter is the largest corporate privatization deal in nearly 20 years and one of the largest acquisitions in the history of technology. Although Musk has always emphasized his identity as an "absolutist of free speech", it is undeniable that this Twitter deal has the potential to affect the global public opinion environment.
Under the blessing of the huge power of money, Musk took 12 days to take down Twitter, and most of the attention of the melon-eating masses was amazed that it was worthy of being the richest man in the world, and buying a social giant was as simple as ordinary people eating and drinking water, effortlessly. However, from the perspective of enterprises, although Musk's acquisition agreement has been reached, there are still many problems under the appearance, and the biggest problem is monopoly.
Think about it carefully, Musk is like Today's flying SpaceX, etc., tesla on the ground, now in charge of one of the world's most influential social media, you know, Musk has previously manipulated the trend of cryptocurrencies through Twitter is not once or twice, buying Twitter means that he can gain a great advantage in the competition between technology companies in the future. With Musk's response to the situation on social platforms, it is inevitable to affect the judgment and mind of users, after all, the right to speak is itself power.