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On April 26, Beijing time, Twitter accepted Musk's $44 billion bid for the acquisition after launching the "poison pill plan" rebellion for 10 days, falling under Musk's "banknote ability".
The commercial serial suspense drama, which has been staged for 3 months, has finally come to an end.
Since the end of January this year, Musk has gone on a shopping spree to buy Twitter stock, and in early April, Musk became Twitter's largest shareholder with a 9.2% stake in Twitter.
Musk himself said the acquisition of Twitter was to defend free speech.
However, as soon as the news of Musk's acquisition of Twitter came out, some media questioned what Musk said was "beautiful".
A cartoon circulating on Twitter
Take an example.
Musk frantically bought Twitter's shares in early April, holding more than 5% of the shares in 10 days without disclosing, and after being accused of relevant accusations, he launched a vote on Twitter, wanting to use followers to support the voting results of shareholders to decide whether Twitter should be privatized, blatantly using Twitter with rhythm.
Cartoonist Ben Garrison satirizes the incident with a cartoon in which Musk is a half-human, half-cat figure who touches Twitter's bird's head to teach it "freedom of speech."
01. N years of stirring Twitter
Musk's love of Twitter is obvious to the people of Earth.
Musk joined Twitter in June 2009, and 13 years later, he posted 17,000 tweets, about four a day, and was active like a twitter-dwelling marketing number.
With 80 million followers, he has been calling the wind and rain on Twitter, often stirring up the capital markets with a single sentence.
On April 2, 2018, Musk tweeted the news that "Tesla is bankrupt", which caused Tesla stock to fall by 7%.
Musk's April Fool's Day tweet
On August 7 of the same year, Musk tweeted that he would take the company private at a price of $420 per share, triggering a sharp rise in Tesla's stock price, which also led to civil charges and fines against Musk and Tesla by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Since then, Tesla has set up a dedicated department to review Musk's tweets.
But from the results, it doesn't play much.
Because in the past two years, Musk knows this well, using Twitter to speculate, and the price of Dogecoin has risen and fallen with Musk's tweets.
In May last year, Musk tweeted that in 2022 SpaceX would carry a satellite into the sky, using Dogecoin as the only payment method.
On April 27, 2022, local time, the SpaceX Crew-4 manned rocket was launched
As soon as the tweet was issued, the satellite was not yet conclusive, but the price of Dogecoin soared.
Soon after, he jokingly called Dogecoin a "scam", and Dogecoin plummeted by 40% that day.
Playing with the capital markets is a fact that has been experienced, but his biggest concern is actually the acquisition of Twitter, which may do more harm than good for free speech.
02. Musk's one-man horn
Over the years, Tesla has not had a lot of negative news.
In the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Musk openly called the home quarantine order "fascist" on Twitter, forcing employees to return to work.
Tesla's factory in Vermont, Calif., has been accused of racist abuse, with racist graffiti everywhere and African-American employees often being verbally abused.
Last October, an African-American employee of Tesla sued for racial discrimination, and the court finally awarded the African-American employee 137 million yuan in damages.
The factory was also a high incidence of sexual harassment, and multiple employees filed lawsuits accusing Tesla of condoning "sex wolves", and Tesla, which seemed to have a big business, was essentially a "vulgar fraternity".
Some male employees ridicule nursing female colleagues as "cows" and humiliate young girls for "going to striptease", but these girls eventually have to resign silently or be fired after reporting fruitless reports.
Some female employees who have been sexually harassed believe that this ethos is related to Musk's own love of making obscene jokes on Twitter. Every time he tweeted, the male employees rushed to read it.
There is a precedent for the plutocracy to grasp public discourse in Western countries, 60 years ago, Murdoch bought a series of local newspapers in Australia, riding the dust with low-end, violent yellow news; in 2013, Bezos acquired the Washington Post, focusing on the political critical content of American politics.
The discourse platform in the hands of the rich has become a weapon and a tool for profit of the rich.
If nothing else, once the $44 billion is spent, at least Musk can let himself go.
TWO data
From April 1 to 25, compared with the same period last year, the national vehicle freight flow index decreased. The average decline in Shanghai was 83.4%; the average decline in Beijing was 42.1%; the average decline in Guangdong was 27.7%; the average decline in Jiangsu was 39.9%; the average decline in Shandong was 10.3%; the average decline in Zhejiang was 17.7%; the average decline in Henan was 26.6%; and the average decline in Jilin was 81.5%. （Wind）
Warren Buffett will begin its final charity lunch auction on June 12. The Buffett Charity Lunch Auction, which has been held for 20 years, was launched in 2000 and initially raised $25,000. Since 2008, each bid has won more than $1 million, and 20 charity lunch auctions have raised more than $34 million. (Zhongxin Jingwei)
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A 2.6 billion yuan market value of A-share company Shou Yao Holdings, the first quarter of this year's operating income of only 708 yuan (yes, indeed not less than 10,000 yuan), performance fell by nearly 100%, triggering a heated discussion among netizens and investors. Netizens joked: I earn 7,000 a month and am ready to launch an IPO listing. In response, Shou Yao Holdings has previously generated revenue from the development income of cooperation with other companies in research and development, and at present, Shou Yao Holdings has not yet approved drugs for marketing, so it lacks performance support.
Using Apple's market capitalization to measure the changes in the market capitalization of China's major technology and Internet companies, we will find that the right side of the equation has not only changed from subtraction to addition in two years, but has also become longer and longer.
Four sounds
There are a lot of (metaverse) entrepreneurs who are still in a state of "holding a hammer and finding nails". ——Qiu Zhen
Qiu Zhen, a senior cross-border investor, is not optimistic about the short-term heat of the meta-universe and suggests that investors find key points and paths.
Your statement is a bit hypocritical. --Yu Minhong
Yu Minhong and Li Guoqing live-streamed the incident of grabbing the official seal, and Li Guoqing said that he grabbed the official seal in order to get back 1 billion yuan and then made public welfare donations, Yu Minhong said.
FIVE video
Today, when we talk about the social responsibility of entrepreneurs, it is difficult to talk about some slogans in a very broad way, and we must return to the core itself.
So what's at the core? An enterprise has two cores, the first is the basic disk of the business, and the second is the people who create the basic disk for this business, so we must adhere to our business and treat our employees well.
Then stay up until the winter is over.
Six reports
"Oil, salt, sauce, vinegar" these condiments seem to have a lower and lower presence in our lives. But it is unexpected that the sense of existence is not very high condiments, the market is getting bigger and bigger, as of 2020, the total output of the mainland condiment industry has reached 16.27 million tons, corresponding to a market of 395 billion yuan, close to the order of 400 billion. What is this concept, just like the domestic ophthalmology medical treatment, the eye medicine, equipment, medical services three pieces are all added up, the total market size is 200 billion, almost half of the condiments.
After the epidemic, many industries have been affected, in contrast, condiments as just needed products once bucked the trend. However, as the epidemic normalized, condiments eventually failed to get rid of the impact of the sluggish consumption, and in the first three quarters of 2021, the profits of condiment listed companies continued to decline. As a result, throughout 2021, the performance of the condiment industry is difficult to be satisfactory. So are condiments still a good business?
The author of this article is | Wu Runqian | The editor on duty | He Mengfei
Responsible editor | He Mengfei | Editor-in-chief | Zheng Yuanmei | Image source | VCG