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X says it is worth $19 billion, down from $44 billion last year::The social media company’s valuation was disclosed in the paperwork for stock grants that it handed to employees on Monday.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Elon truly is one of the businessmen of all time.

[–] 1847953620 3 points 1 year ago

love it when he said "it's businessin' time!"

and then he businessed all over the place

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This means he won’t have to pay income tax for a while. Maybe ever.

[–] cheese_greater 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this you or did you get that somewhere. I love it "irregardless"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its a meme. No idea where or when it started.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a meme! Mario!

[–] cheese_greater 0 points 1 year ago

Its so oblique, luvvit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Know your meme doesn't have any real info on it, but the first time I remember it is people posting about Morbius on Reddit, "Morbius is certainly one of the movies of all time."

[–] cheese_greater -3 points 1 year ago

Its one of those things that doesn't follow the script and there's like no way to respond to it in real-time unless you have latitude for like a playful back-and-forth between two super perky morning talk show hosts or something

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All the comments under you says there’s a meme attached to your comment but I don’t see it no meme

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

When I said "one of the businessmen of all time" that sentence is a play on "one of the best businessmen of all time". The above phrase is a meme. Memes are not limited to funny pictures.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$19bil is still way too overestimated. I'd laugh at anyone who pay this much if Musk ever decided to sell.

[–] TropicalDingdong 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LEDZeppelin 19 points 1 year ago

$2 and I want that sink put be back where the Apartheid Lon took it from at owner’s expense.

[–] Nastybutler 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He called it an "inverse startup". So, a shut down?

[–] Asudox 1 points 1 year ago
[–] NoSpiritAnimal 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes well I'm worth Eleventy-Billion, down from a historic high of Biggilty-Billion.

[–] 1847953620 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm worth schfifty-five.

[–] Gazumi 15 points 1 year ago

Musk fanboys are so very excited. They are waiting for his last minute genius move to explain his super smart strategy. I'm not holding my breath

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

WuuUuuhhh?! But it has such a cool name now, duuude! 😎

[–] AbidanYre 13 points 1 year ago

Did Elon make a Brewster's Billions bet with the Saudis or something?

[–] Treczoks 11 points 1 year ago

As long as they still operate, they have too much money on their hands.

[–] Decentralizr 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bird killer! That’s why! Never kill off birds! Or how he called it X’ed them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Who knew Larry the Bird was an albatross the entire time

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


X, the company formerly known as Twitter, handed out stock grants to employees on Monday that showed it was worth about $19 billion, down about 55 percent from the $44 billion that Elon Musk paid to buy the firm a year ago, according to internal documents seen by The New York Times.

In March, he wrote in an email to workers that he believed the company was worth $20 billion, calling it “an inverse start-up.”

Employees will still be paid in cash in the amount of $54.20 for any outstanding shares that were granted to them under previous management, the company said.

In his year of owning Twitter, Mr. Musk has overhauled the company and the social media platform.

Advertising, the company’s main source of revenue, was down in the United States by almost 60 percent this summer.

Last week, in a company meeting celebrating the first anniversary of the deal, he laid out how he believed X could serve as an all-purpose app with an array of features, including dating services and job recruiting, according to a recording obtained by The Times.


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[–] Etterra 7 points 1 year ago

$19 billion, or $49 billion in Trump Fantasy Bucks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] Shardikprime 2 points 1 year ago

I mean that's the reason why they call them unrealized gains. Valuation can tank