Comment by dale_glass
2 years ago
I highly doubt it. He's drastically overpaid for Twitter, to the point that it ever being profitable dubious.
Twitter is also not really that important. He's paid way too much for something that on the user side is unimpressive tech, and that is only valuable because of its inertia, and that's by no means guaranteed.
As I understand it, if Twitter shuts down tomorrow Musk will still be tremendously rich man. Sure, he will upset some investors but the debt he took for the buyout was actually in the name of Twitter and he won't be exposed to it.
Maybe he doesn't have to make Twitter profitable to justify the outrageous price he paid, maybe it's good enough to make it break even?
> As I understand it, if Twitter shuts down tomorrow Musk will still be tremendously rich man.
What does that have to do with anything? My argument is that I disagree that he "understands what is a good product", and is a good business person, at least in the context of Twitter.
Whether he can survive Twitter failing is not part of the discussion.
> Maybe he doesn't have to make Twitter profitable to justify the outrageous price he paid, maybe it's good enough to make it break even?
Profit is anything right above break even, even just one cent. So no.
Let's agree to disagree then. My arguments looks weaker ATM anyway, I'm starting to think that he shaving his head from the top and peeing on the streets might be a plausible end to this saga.