Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter?!
This absolutely blew my mind, but apparently Elon's stake in Twitter is now 9.2% and the news of this has sent Twitter's stock price up 20% - making his shares worth $2.89 billion!!!
The screenshots I added above from just a week or so ago don't paint the picture of a guy who's super happy with the way Twitter is run, hence my surprise, but I wonder if this kind of stock holding will give him some sway over how the platform handles thorny speech topics.
Twitter shares close up 27% after Elon Musk takes 9% stake in social media company
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a big stake in the social media company Twitter, a regulatory filing released Monday showed.
