Never before has a single person mobilized so much money to buy a company.
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San Francisco, New York “Extraordinary” is a term that seems strangely pale in connection with Elon Musk. The richest man in the world is planning a trip to Mars, plans to run high-speed subways across the United States and has revolutionized the auto industry. But the purchase of Twitter, even by Musk’s standards, is just that: extraordinary.
Twitter’s board of directors accepted Musk’s $44 billion purchase offer on Monday. Never before has a single person mobilized so much money to buy a company. In the next step, Musk wants to delist Twitter from the stock exchange.
But the platform has hardly any overlaps with its other companies such as the electric car manufacturer Tesla or the rocket company SpaceX. One question is currently being hotly debated in the Silicon Valley technology scene: What does Musk want with Twitter anyway?
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