Musk Hints at Twitter Plan B, Lambastes SEC Over Settlement

Bloomberg2022-04-15

Offer not about making money, Tesla CEO says at TED eventBillionaire says ‘not sure’ he’ll be able to complete dealElon Musk expressed doubt about whether he’ll succeed with his $43 billion offer to ...

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Jason_LSE
2022-04-15
Jason_LSE
The combination of Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Co, Neuralink... etc.. etc.. is equal or more powerful than any country or sovereign funds... This is a new power shift Century ( of individuals).. 💪
gohyizheng
2022-04-15
gohyizheng
[LOL]
MHh
2022-04-15
MHh
Seems like his ego could sabotage his own tesla?
BenjiFuji
2022-04-15
BenjiFuji
A lot of psychology at play here. Do you think Musk really wanted to buy or it was plan B all along?
goldenboy
2022-04-15
goldenboy
[Happy]
HENRYCSC
2022-04-15
HENRYCSC
Good

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Do you think Musk really wanted to buy or it was plan B all along?","listText":"A lot of psychology at play here. Do you think Musk really wanted to buy or it was plan B all along?","text":"A lot of psychology at play here. Do you think Musk really wanted to buy or it was plan B all along?","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9089239067","repostId":1123697249,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9089293034,"gmtCreate":1649991784626,"gmtModify":1676534624713,"author":{"id":"4090397709902260","authorId":"4090397709902260","name":"goldenboy","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/7b54f875974398ac18e7c50c708c3ad9","vip":1,"crmLevel":8,"crmLevelSwitch":1},"htmlText":"[Happy]&nbsp;","listText":"[Happy]&nbsp;","text":"[Happy]","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9089293034","repostId":1123697249,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"},{"id":9089205754,"gmtCreate":1649991432651,"gmtModify":1676534624569,"author":{"id":"3575091428590185","authorId":"3575091428590185","name":"HENRYCSC","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6d47a6dec25b21dc547a5b982674c499","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0},"htmlText":"Good&nbsp;","listText":"Good&nbsp;","text":"Good","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/9089205754","repostId":1123697249,"repostType":4,"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"EN"}],"isCommentEnd":false,"newsSizeData":{"likeSize":216,"commentSize":22,"repostSize":0,"favoriteSize":0,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false},"APP":{"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)","isDev":false,"isTTM":true,"deviceId":"web-server-community-laohu8-v3","version":"4.24.2","shortVersion":"4.24.2","platform":"web","vendor":"web","appName":"ttm","isIOS":false,"isAndroid":false,"isTiger":false,"isTHS":false,"isWeiXin":false,"isWeiXinMini":false,"isWeiBo":false,"isQQ":false,"isBaiduSwan":false,"isBaiduBox":false,"isDingTalk":false,"isToutiao":false,"isOnePlus":false,"isHuaWei":false,"isXiaomi":false,"isXiaomiWebView":false,"isOppo":false,"isVivo":false,"isSamsung":false,"isMobile":false},"href":"/m/news/1123697249"}