SIGforum
Elon Musk buys 73 million shares of Twitter, becomes largest stockholder

This topic can be found at:
https://sigforum.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/320601935/m/3310019094

April 11, 2022, 02:47 PM
PASig
Elon Musk buys 73 million shares of Twitter, becomes largest stockholder
Hopefully this all changes with Musk:




April 11, 2022, 04:19 PM
BurtonRW
quote:
Originally posted by Paten:
Elon Musk is just another billionaire. He may be doing something now that we think is a good thing but I'm never going to be a cheerleader for that douchebag.


Is he a douchebag because he’s just another billionaire, or are there billionaires who aren’t douchebags in your estimation?

Serious question. Because I’d really like to be a billionaire one day, but if it automatically makes me a douchebag, I’m not sure.

-Rob




I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888

A=A
April 11, 2022, 04:48 PM
SIGnified
Stupid people despise success; never understanding what it really means.

Jealousy is a bitch.

I have personally met three billionaires in my life. Also many millionaires (when it meant something). The billionaires are not necessarily people I would choose to have a beer with but:

1. I’m not super social, and

2. I think that’s because of their personalities and not necessarily their wealth.

Luck is a huge part of monster wealth. Like fame, vast wealth may change people over time. It just depends on the person. Bill Gates for example thought he could hang out with Jeffrey Epstein and not have to pay the consequences. Stupid fuck.

But how much wealth (aka jobs) does Microsoft return to its employees? I know a lot of people that have worked there. Microsoft made 10,000 millionaires in Redmond, Wa by 1995. My children went to school with a Kids of those parents.

My oldest became very entrepreneurial at age 15 working at the elbows of some of those millionaires in Redmond, Wa. Those experiences serve him quite well to this very day some decade later. He is so far ahead of degreed staff on how business actually needs to run. Bumps heads w/ others who “read a mgmt book”.





"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty."
~Robert A. Heinlein
April 11, 2022, 05:38 PM
RichardC
quote:
Originally posted by SIGnified:


My oldest became very entrepreneurial at age 15 working at the elbows of some of those millionaires in Redmond, Wa. Those experiences serve him quite well to this very day some decade later. He is so far ahead of degreed staff on how business actually needs to run. Bumps heads w/ others who “read a mgmt book”.


Yes, remember how Margaret Rudkin did it?




____________________
April 12, 2022, 12:35 AM
Paten
quote:
Originally posted by BurtonRW:
Is he a douchebag because he’s just another billionaire, or are there billionaires who aren’t douchebags in your estimation?

-Rob


I'm sure there are billionaires who are not douchbags. Maybe Warren Buffett?
April 12, 2022, 05:18 AM
Captain Morgan
I met a lot of people who are not rich and are douch bags.

The problem is not with Musk so much but maybe our expectations of him is this case.



Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.
Benjamin Franklin
April 12, 2022, 08:48 AM
6guns
quote:
Originally posted by Paten:
quote:
Originally posted by BurtonRW:
Is he a douchebag because he’s just another billionaire, or are there billionaires who aren’t douchebags in your estimation?

-Rob


I'm sure there are billionaires who are not douchbags. Maybe Warren Buffett?


From what I know of both of them, I'd take Musk over Buffett.




SIGforum: For all your needs!
Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>
April 12, 2022, 09:00 AM
vinnybass
quote:
Originally posted by sdy:
Elon Musk has decided not to be on the board of directors

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...rd-afterall-n2605735

Elon Musk Isn’t Joining the Twitter Board After All


Hostile takeover?



"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
April 14, 2022, 06:28 AM
bcereuss
quote:
Originally posted by vinnybass:
quote:
Originally posted by sdy:
Elon Musk has decided not to be on the board of directors

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...rd-afterall-n2605735

Elon Musk Isn’t Joining the Twitter Board After All


Hostile takeover?


Maybe…

Elon Musk tries to buy Twitter for $41BILLION: Tesla CEO offers $54.20 a share and says if his offer is not accepted 'I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder. Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it'
April 14, 2022, 07:07 AM
Balzé Halzé
Go get 'em, Elon.


~Alan

Acta Non Verba
NRA Life Member (Patron)
God, Family, Guns, Country

Men will fight and die to protect women... because women protect everything else. ~Andrew Klavan

"Once there was only dark. If you ask me, light is winning." ~Rust Cohle
April 14, 2022, 07:35 AM
PASig
He’s put them in a tight spot, either he gets it or he walks and that stock tanks so bad it will collapse the company.

Brilliant mofo if you ask me.

I’m sure the blue-hair Alphabet Mafia along with the Biden regime will fight this tooth and nail.


April 14, 2022, 07:43 AM
erj_pilot
Elon Musk scares the sh*t outta the Progressive, Libtarded, Communist MoFo’s that are currently running this country. Elon is trying to make Twatter a non-biased platform as it was originally intended, and the freedom-hating f**ktards of this nation are trying to destroy him for it.

God bless, Elon…give ‘em hell and force feed ‘em a sh*t sandwich!!



"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
April 14, 2022, 09:18 AM
SIGnified
Elon Musk now saying that $43 billion gets it done; 100%.





"Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty."
~Robert A. Heinlein
April 14, 2022, 09:47 AM
Gustofer
Could he not control the company with 51%? Why buy the whole thing? Just because you can?


________________________________________________________
"Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton.
April 14, 2022, 09:55 AM
BOATTRASH1
What good news to wake up to on my birthday. Sell the company to him or watch him tank it.

I hope the twatter employees are melting down and considering taking high dives out of their offices.

I'm sure the current administration will try with the full weight of the Just Us Département and the SEC to stop this. probably also a lot of fabricated crap will come out about Musk and Tesla which will require the fbi and every other crooked agency to investigate.
April 14, 2022, 09:57 AM
PASig
Big Grin

Matt Walsh:

quote:

If Elon Musk buys Twitter, he will be the first African American to own a major social media platform. This is a great day for diversity. Another glass ceiling shattered!


Link


April 14, 2022, 10:02 AM
Pipe Smoker
quote:
Originally posted by Gustofer:
Could he not control the company with 51%? Why buy the whole thing? Just because you can?

Minority share holders have rights that might thwart Elon’s plans.



Serious about crackers
April 14, 2022, 10:12 AM
HRK
quote:
Originally posted by Gustofer:
Could he not control the company with 51%? Why buy the whole thing? Just because you can?


Buy it, take it private, reorg in your time, doing what you want, without federal regulations requiring disclosure of your actions, intentions, business ideas etc.

Then roll it back out with a new IPO with Musk as champion and sell stock, making $150 billion.

Laugh on the way to the bank..
April 14, 2022, 10:15 AM
PASig
The Left is FREAKING today Roll Eyes

They do not want free speech on this platform

Bunch of goddam commies, I hope he pulls this off


April 14, 2022, 10:16 AM
Ackks
quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
He’s put them in a tight spot, either he gets it or he walks and that stock tanks so bad it will collapse the company.

Brilliant mofo if you ask me.

I’m sure the blue-hair Alphabet Mafia along with the Biden regime will fight this tooth and nail.

My guess is they will start a new one and take many of the blue checks with them. The media will back them and try to turn it into another MySpace vs FB.