“Fidelity is currently valuing X at about $9.4 billion”

I found this funny.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    If I remember correctly the evaluation of Xitter has been around $9 Billion for years so they’re basically saying it tanked only a little if you adjust for inflation.

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      1 month ago

      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.

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        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.