{"id":12159,"date":"2022-04-14T12:56:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mydailyfreedom.com\/?p=12159"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:42:11","slug":"elon-musk-buy-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/elon-musk-buy-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk rejected seat on board, offers to buy 100% of Twitter instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk has already rejected a seat on the board of Twitter and has now offered to buy 100% of Twitter in hopes to make it private and unlock its full potential. Musk has a 9.2% stake in Twitter and his offer to buy the platform was for $54.20 a share on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH the news video on it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elon Musk offers to buy 100% of Twitter\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D3mX_ZmY72E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here is what Elon Musk wrote in a letter to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor, <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1418091\/000110465922045641\/tm2212748d1_sc13da.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-ylk=\"slk:as disclosed in a new SEC filing\" data-rapid_p=\"38\" data-v9y=\"1\">as disclosed in a new SEC filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy.<\/p>\n<p>However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form. Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk was recently interviewed by the Babylon Bee.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH the interview video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elon Musk Sits Down With The Babylon Bee\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jvGnw1sHh9M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk has already rejected a seat on the board of Twitter and has now offered to buy 100% of Twitter in hopes to make it private and unlock its full potential. Musk has a 9.2% stake in Twitter and his offer to buy the platform was for $54.20 a share on Thursday. &#8230; <a title=\"Elon Musk rejected seat on board, offers to buy 100% of Twitter instead\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/elon-musk-buy-twitter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elon Musk rejected seat on board, offers to buy 100% of Twitter instead\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}