It’s the big tech version of trumps presidential campaign then, basically.
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NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 10 months agoHe did it as a meme. He then had his hand forced to buy it since he went so far into the process. Now he is stuck with it. This wasn’t even supposed to be a thing. He had no plan and no ideas. It’s a 20 billion dollar pile of burning turds.
Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Technically he had a way out. He could pay 1bn to cancel the contract, but he didn’t. Again, very funny if he overpaid so much to make everybody think he’s so smart when he dad a “cheap” out
Syntha@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
No he didn’t. The 1 billion fine was not a “get out of the contract” option.
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 10 months ago
techcrunch.com/…/elon-musks-twitter-deal-includes…
There is an excerpt of the agreement in there. Seems pretty clear to me, but I’m open to hear your interpretation.
gwildors_gill_slits@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
The 1 billion termination fee only applied in very specific circumstances. He couldn’t just choose to pay it because he didn’t want to go ahead with the purchase.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-cant-just-walk-away-from-twitter-deal-by-paying-1-billion.html
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 10 months ago
See, if he’d done that, he would have looked bad, and he couldn’t have that. He wanted out, but only if he could have the out not look like he was the one backing out. He needed it to be Twitter’s fault, same way as he’s trying to blame anyone by himself for advertisers fleeing.
NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 10 months ago
☝️This one gets it