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"Fidelity is currently valuing X at about $9.4 billion"

I found this funny.

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The value of Twitter when he bought it was $44 billion. We know this because his dumb ass bought it for $44 billion.

Regardless of what a sane person would pay for it, that was the value to him and so if the next highest valuation is $9b he lost $35b of value by overpaying.

You do raise a good point though. Twitter used to be valued at $9b when its value was speculative and the company was growing, now that we know it's shit and getting worse it's almost certainly worth less than that too.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I guess my point is that it isn't worth an article in mid 2024 because it really only repeats what has been said a million times a about the subject. Even before it was bought. No one else would've paid much more than $9 Billion at any point because it is legitimately insane.