{"id":16235,"date":"2024-03-30T03:55:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T02:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/?p=16235"},"modified":"2024-03-30T03:55:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T02:55:21","slug":"where-did-elon-musk-get-the-money-to-buy-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/where-did-elon-musk-get-the-money-to-buy-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Did Elon Musk Get The Money To Buy Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk famously announced on July 29th, 2020 that he was considering taking Tesla Inc private at 420 US dollars. This tweet led to speculation that Musk might have been considering purchasing Twitter. Musk had famously started the hashtag #deletefacebook in June 2018 after its failure to protect user data in the Cambridge Analytica incident. It is believed that Musk was annoyed at the level of control tech giants had over their user data and was thinking of ways to challenge them.<\/p>\n

His first thought was to purchase Twitter, because he believed its user data could be effectively retained and that it could be used as a giant network for messaging users on topics related to the business. But this leads to the question of how Musk would have the money to purchase Twitter in the first place. After all, purchasing a company of Twitter’s size and scope requires an enormous amount of capital.<\/p>\n

The answer may lie in the $5 billion worth of stock that Musk had accumulated over the years. Musk began investing in technology companies in the late 1990s and early 2000s as founder of PayPal and provided a large amount of money to help launch Tesla and SpaceX. This was underpinned by a big pay packet he had received from PayPal when it went public in 2002. As a result, Musk had built a sizeable wealth of private assets and stock during this period.<\/p>\n

Musk also had access to the approximately 388 million US dollar loan he had taken out in 2017 to purchase his Tesla and SpaceX shares. This loan was secured against these assets, which meant that if he sold them, he could be able to make a large purchase such as Twitter. Musk had also raised funds from other investors, such as Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. These funds allowed him to invest and build up more stock and wealth, which would help him finance such a deal.<\/p>\n