'X' Marks xAI's Spot: xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion. (spyglass.org)
from Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 2025 23:24
https://programming.dev/post/27692858

#technology

threaded - newest

lupusblackfur@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 2025 23:30 next collapse

Elmo finds yet another way to pad his perceived value…

Sell shit companies (both of which you own) to yourself at exorbitantly inflated prices with “stock only” trades.

And no accounting shall be had cause steal-ionnairs just can.

🙄 🤦‍♀️ 🤡 🖕 🖕

turnip@sh.itjust.works on 29 Mar 2025 22:36 collapse

Blame loose monetary policy, and QE that pumps money into risk assets. Tesla and Bitcoin have many things in common.

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 2025 23:33 next collapse

I’m not convinced bundling a losing business with an utterly inflated one is the right move to attract investors but then again you shouldn’t invest in an oligarchy in the first place.

Pistcow@lemm.ee on 29 Mar 2025 00:13 next collapse

They’re not investors, they’re money launderers.

aramis87@fedia.io on 29 Mar 2025 01:46 collapse

The point is that he's got too much exposure in Xitter, plus everyone's tanking Tesla, so he's moving stuff around to try to hang on to everything he can.

turtl@lemm.ee on 28 Mar 2025 23:36 next collapse

xD

lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org on 28 Mar 2025 23:40 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/c6dcc010-a3f0-4473-acb7-5d1f3a063de4.png">

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 28 Mar 2025 23:54 next collapse

So the ridiculously overvalued pump-and-dump paid for the real assets that he then destroyed but will bail out with the magical cauldron of venture capital so everything’s just fine.

Can’t see any problems here.

TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee on 29 Mar 2025 00:04 next collapse

It’s all tied to tesla and if that stock tanks it’s game over. Elmo is leveraged to his tits lol.

skozzii@lemmy.ca on 29 Mar 2025 02:26 collapse

As soon as it drops below 180 the whole house comes down. Current targets are being updated to $110 which I still feel is over inflated.

xenomor@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 00:29 next collapse

Didn’t he already do this same sort of fuckery with Solar City and Tesla?

Prox@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 00:44 next collapse

These are some stupid company names.

thesohoriots@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 02:15 collapse

If you put them all together they eventually spell a slur.

baggachipz@sh.itjust.works on 29 Mar 2025 00:50 next collapse

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/b9def05f-e8ce-48c1-8908-4e237b93b018.gif">

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 05:21 next collapse

I have seen 3 different posts and each had a different value for X. The number sends arbitrary. Who gives a shit what he paid for his own company.

rational_lib@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 05:55 collapse

It’s not all him, several other people invested in both. According to some article Elon owns 79% of X, and only 54% of xAI (barely enough to control it). Since the valuation of X in the deal is about $20 billion more what others have estimated ($12.3 billion), it definitely seems like it’s a corrupt bailout 46% funded with other xAI investors’ money, basically netting Elon $8 billion overnight.

That being said, the other investors in xAI are easy marks like Marc Andressen (famous for funding Adam Neumann’s project that came after WeWork) and various Saudi Royals who possibly were convinced that this is ok.

surewhynotlem@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 12:35 collapse

Saudi Royals who possibly were convinced that this is ok.

Convinced? This is how they’ve bribed him.

Safipok@lemmy.ml on 29 Mar 2025 16:06 collapse

Mixture of bribe and getting scammed.

MisterMoo@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 07:00 next collapse

If you don’t have a Twitter account there’s no reason for you to care about this at all.

Spend your limited time on earth worrying about things that matter.

Ulrich@feddit.org on 29 Mar 2025 11:32 next collapse

I wish it didn’t matter.

Ironfist79@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 14:30 collapse

An unelected billionaire committing fraud and destroying our government really does matter.

13igTyme@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 14:37 next collapse

I hate people that say, “I don’t care about politics, it doesn’t impact my life.”

From federal to local politics impacts every single aspect of your life.

Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee on 29 Mar 2025 22:50 collapse

But foreign politics less so. New government in Kenya? Not a big deal. Convicted felon and rapist shitting on the world? Annoying, but there are more important local matters.

SirQuack@feddit.nl on 29 Mar 2025 21:20 collapse

your government. We, as non-US majority users, are having struggles of our own. Your elected, fascist government isn’t anywhere near top priority for us and you should stop thinking it is.

Zeddex@sh.itjust.works on 29 Mar 2025 21:25 collapse

Ukraine might think otherwise. Palestine might think otherwise. Like it or not the US is a major world power and what happens there at the federal level does have an impact globally.

aesthelete@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 07:23 next collapse

Lol neither are worth that much.

daddy32@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 09:49 next collapse

I don’t know. Look where twitter helped him to get. It is a well working propaganda machine.

Flisty@mstdn.social on 29 Mar 2025 09:50 collapse

@daddy32 @aesthelete yup I'm sure it's worth quite a lot to some larger private investors

max_dryzen@mander.xyz on 29 Mar 2025 23:49 collapse

A firearm isn’t worth much money in the scheme of things either its real worth is in publicly displaying it on your person, and having it loaded

umbraroze@slrpnk.net on 29 Mar 2025 08:00 next collapse

Short summary: Elon gives Elon some Elon and congratulates Elon for being such an Elon, that big money boy he is. Money!

jayandp@sh.itjust.works on 29 Mar 2025 19:42 collapse
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 11:13 collapse

A shell game.

InverseParallax@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 2025 14:25 collapse

He was having trouble refinancing given the massive drop in revenue and valuation.

So just make up a number and buy it off yourself.