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> Given that they are unprofitable, if I were a shareholder I would be upset if I did not see experiments being run to see how much cost can be cut and where.

Twitter will never get to $44bn market cap again (much less a valuation with a decent IRR) by cutting costs alone. They need to grow way more than they need to cut costs.

If any of those experiments lead to less growth (which I’d argue is true of a broken Tweetdeck), then they are wholly not worth it.




If I were a former Twitter shareholder, I'd be extremely grateful to the board for selling the whole thing for 44 Bn. No way tje company would have reached this evaluation without Musk. And Musk knew it, he just signed himself a contract he couldn't het out of.


As a nit, Twitter traded well above $44bn for good portions of 2021.

It was arguably even a fair price when he offered it (acquisition always have premiums), the market just turned.


So, shareholders got paid the pre-downturn price after the downturn? At a time big tech went down double 10+%? Sounds like an incredibly good deal to me.


Yeah it was.

But now $44bn is the cost basis for all the current shareholders, so Elon has to make returns against that.


If pre-acquisition shareholders choose to stick around after that windfall, well, that there problem. And Elon's.




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