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Musk’s repeated outbursts against advertisers have dried up the main source of revenue for the loss-making company formerly known as Twitter. A recent decision to sue them for heeding his own advice to not buy ads on the platform hasn’t helped. At some point, he will have to provide a fresh infusion of cash to salvage his $44 billion takeover.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 40 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Because it will affect Tesla's share price (negatively), just like it did last time, and Fortune's job is to report on things that affect share prices.

There is also a public interest element, because Musk is currently the richest man on earth - which affords him massively undue power and influence - but he won't be if he manages to crash the Tesla stock price with a massive sell-off.

Tesla is exceedingly overvalued right now which makes it a very volatile stock. We already saw the price crater the last time he sold stock to keep Twitter afloat, and it only really recovered when he pinkie swore not to do it again.

[–] avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tesla is exceedingly overvalued right now

Always has been

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I'm not implying that it was ever valued correctly. I'm saying that it's gone from "overvalued" to "exceedingly overvalued".

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

It always has been

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Not to mention that if he sells enough Tesla shares he could lose majority control of it. If that happens and enough shareholders band together they could force all the Elon sycophants off of the board of directors, then the new board could force him out as CEO.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A lot of shareholders have drunk the Elon kool-aid tho, look at the recent shareholder vote about Elon's ridiculous pay package.

There's a lot of true believers that treat it like a meme stock and don't look at the fundamentals.

It's going to go down eventually, but it might take longer than you'd expect based on the numbers.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

100%. Tesla shareholders are an almost entirely irrational market. Turns out buying into a stock that over-priced does not self-select for a healthy ability to assess risks.

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 9 points 3 months ago

So only good things.