Recently, in order to make himself more free to "spit" on the Internet, Musk, the world's richest man, directly pocketed Twitter, one of the world's largest social platforms, at a sky-high price of $44 billion, and even the Twitter board that had previously resisted strongly resisted could not resist the temptation, bluntly saying that he gave too much.
In order to raise the cash needed for the transaction, Musk will sell a large number of Tesla shares, which directly led to the collapse of the "pro-son" Tesla stock price on the second day of the acquisition, the market value evaporated by $126 billion overnight, and the personal wealth shrank "half a Twitter" by $21 billion.
Why the cost is so large, Musk still insists on buying an APP, the reason behind it is far more than what he said about opening up the Twitter algorithm and promoting the freedom to eat melons. In fact, this is just a small move by Musk in the next step, and Iron Man's greater ambitions are behind.
$44 billion was worth it
In fact, the super-rich are not new to buying media. Bezos, the world's second richest and founder of Amazon, bought the Washington Post, the fourth richest Bill Gates bought 4 newspapers for $350 million, and the fifth richest "stock god" Buffett also bought 63 newspapers for $142 million. It's just that Musk suddenly pulled out $44 billion this time, which is a bit like a wronged head.
You know, Musk can be regarded as a "clear stream" among the rich, there is almost no real estate under his name, the world's richest man is still renting a house, and visiting tesla gigafactory in China can nibble pancake fruit on the side of the road. For the world's richest man, who "cut" himself to the extreme, spending $44 billion in astronomical money is obviously unreasonable to realize the freedom of spitting.
Musk himself is Twitter's "top stream" user, sitting on 83.6 million fans, almost every day to tweet, a tweet can get tens of millions of levels of traffic exposure, for the brand to win unparalleled attention, once a Twitter let Bitcoin fall 15% a day, even hacking organizations have threatened to retaliate. From the crazy landing plan to mars to the hype of "dog coins", Musk seems to be able to double his value every time he "fancy work".
But flow is a double-edged sword. Don't look at Musk's popularity in Internet surfing, but he has also repeatedly flipped over in the public opinion field. At the end of last year, a huge "super-rich tax" tax storm arose on Twitter, which caught Musk off guard, although the wealth he holds is mainly stocks and can legally avoid the tax burden.
However, the Internet has set off a wave of forced donations to Musk, and even forced Musk to publish Cao Zhi's "Seven Steps Poem" on Twitter with Chinese, which is self-evident. Finally, the incident came to a temporary end with Musk paying $11 billion in taxes at the beginning of the year, and Musk also sold a large number of Tesla shares to fill this hole.
It is conceivable that when Musk buys 100% control of the world's most active public opinion field, his passive situation in global public discussion will be greatly improved. After the acquisition is completed, Twitter will be delisted as a private holding company, it can only be surnamed Ma, and then Musk's business hype is only a matter of operation, after all, it is in the field of others. He bought himself a super "golden microphone", and in this sense, $44 billion is indeed not a loss.
Greater ambitions are exposed
Previously, the business empire of Musk, the world's richest man, has long covered many fields such as automobiles, energy, space, and transportation. After taking the "acquisition of Twitter" move, Musk's business map will make up for the missing "media" plate, and this step seems to be light, but it is actually a matter of life and death, and it may lead to the trillion road if it is good.
20 years ago, Musk backed the two companies he founded, Zip2 and PayPal, and earned his first pot of gold. Musk invested $6.5 million in Tesla in 2004, and the two have been deeply tied. After that, Musk successively founded solar energy company SolarCity, brain-computer interface company Neuralink, underground tunnel company The Boring Company, non-profit organization OpenAI and other corporate organizations.
One of the most technologically charged is Neuralink. Not long ago, although Musk said that most people do not need to live so long, he is duplicitously doing another set, in a vain attempt to inject consciousness into the machine through the combination of man and machine, and achieve another level of immortality. It is reported that Neuralink is a company focused on brain-computer interface technology, that is, the extremely small electrical level is implanted into the brain, using the current to make the computer and brain cells "interact", and the first human experiment will be carried out before the end of the year.
Interestingly, his mother and ex-girlfriend are also obsessed with fighting aging, but not as sci-fi ahead of Musk thinks. They are looking at another class of coenzyme Class I supplements (the key ingredient of "Cylery"), which has been confirmed by top scientific research institutes such as the University of Tokyo and the Academy of Sciences, and has the effect of activating the energy engine "mitochondria", and mitochondrial activity is one of the recognized indicators of decay in the academic community. Hong Kong's former richest man, Li Ka-shing, not only took it himself, but also said that he was back in his 20s, but also added hundreds of billions of dollars to invest in the same field, and mature supplements such as "Sylery" also crossed the sea from Japan to the mainland through Bo Dong, which was warmly welcomed by millions of new middle class. Today, Musk's mother, Meyer Musk, is 72 years old and still active in the public arena as an entrepreneur, speaker, and well-known fashion icon.
From PayPal, to SpaceX, to Tesla, to human-machine interfaces, Musk's company is at the forefront of the times every time. In the face of these unknown ultra-emerging fields, the ability of enterprises and technologies to tell stories to "draw the pie" is very critical, and sometimes even determines life and death. Just like the anti-aging technology that most people have not heard of, first of all, people must see and hear, in order to create value, Twitter can play a very important role in publicity window.
So this time, Musk wants to buy Twitter at any cost, which is a step of "four or two thousand pounds" of live chess. Twitter may be able to revitalize its entire business empire in the future, at least in the field of public opinion to escort the giant ship. It is foreseeable that as Twitter falls into Musk's pocket, the future of Iron Man's companies, including cutting-edge anti-aging technologies like "Cylery", will inevitably be doubly amplified in the market.
At the age of 15, he dreamed of saving humanity
"My mission is to save people," Musk wrote of his life's aspirations at the age of 15. Heaven, earth, brain
And then to this heavy money to buy a "sounding tube", Musk's legendary life seems to be confirming the dream of this youth. This Twitter storm is just a short step in the sea of stars for this legend.
Of course, at this stage, it is only the Twitter board of directors and Musk to reach a final agreement, according to the regulations, the merger of this transaction amount needs to go through the anti-monopoly review of the Trade Commission or the Ministry of Justice, and it is still unknown whether the cheese on the lips will fly away. What do you think is behind Musk's acquisition of Twitter?