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Comment by woah

7 hours ago

It's messed up that Grok underwrote all those subprime mortgages in 2008

I think the argument is that it's messed up that a large debt swap from xAI kept Musk's margin on Twitter from being called by his investors, and now that debt is being absorbed by SpaceX.

  • > Musk's margin on Twitter from being called by his investors,

    Primary and largest investors in X are: Elon Musk, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Larry Ellison, Jack Dorsey.

    I don't know that you need to worry about their financial well-being or that they are getting a raw deal.

    • Whoa, I had to do a double-take on the Dorsey mention -- like, didn't he take the money and run while laughing at the folks that overpaid? But it seems he's retained a 2.4% ownership stake in Twitter/X, according to Wikipedia:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Dorsey#Twitter

      Still, don't make the mistake I did, which was to read the above comment to mean "he put more money in at the time of the buyout", since he was called an "investor in X".