From what I remember from my corporate finance class, he actually didn't spend all that much money personally. Instead Twitter itself provided something like 34 billion dollars for it's own takeover, which means that Twitter needs to spend something like a billion dollars every year just in interest payments.
He bought twitter just to be able to reply to people like this.
$44 Billion dollars.
Think about how many serious problems $44 billion could solve
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Death to America
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more than that cause a bunch of that money is debt that he'll have to pay back with interest. $44 billion is what the twitter shareholders got.
From what I remember from my corporate finance class, he actually didn't spend all that much money personally. Instead Twitter itself provided something like 34 billion dollars for it's own takeover, which means that Twitter needs to spend something like a billion dollars every year just in interest payments.