Takeover of Twitter: Elon Musk believes that he’ll “pay far an excessive amount of” for the social community

The deadline is approaching for Elon Musk and Twitter. The 2 events have till October 28 to finish the acquisition of the microblogging web site by the American multi-billionaire, failing which a trial will happen in November.

On October 4, the boss of Tesla and SpaceX had backpedaled by relaunching his takeover bid for the social community on the worth agreed in April ($54.20 per share, or a valuation of $44 billion), three months after having given up on get your fingers on the platform created by Jack Dorsey. However clearly, Elon Musk will not be thrilled with the concept of ​​paying such a sum to afford Twitter.

Certainly, the latter estimated, throughout a quarterly convention with monetary analysts to decipher Tesla’s outcomes, that the quantity of the operation was far too excessive. “Clearly different buyers and I’ll clearly be paying manner an excessive amount of at this level, however the potential [du réseau social] is basically at its present worth”stated Elon Musk specifically.

Twitter, “an asset that has been languishing for a very long time however has unimaginable potential”

Within the eyes of Elon Musk, Twitter “is an asset that has been languishing for a very long time however has unimaginable potential”. In a pitch deck introduced to buyers, and consulted by the New York Instances within the spring, the American multi-billionaire had set itself the purpose of accelerating the social community’s revenues to 26.4 billion {dollars} by 2028, in opposition to 5.1 billion {dollars} in 2021.

On the similar time, the person who’s vying for the title of richest man on this planet with Jeff Bezos desires to extend Twitter from 217 million every day energetic customers to almost 600 million in 2025, then 931 million in six years. Amongst them, 69 million will likely be customers of Twitter Blue by 2025, the paid model of the microblogging web site, a determine that may enhance to 159 million by 2028.

Lastly, Elon Musk is aiming for 104 million subscribers by this deadline for a brand new service referred to as X. “The takeover of Twitter is an accelerator to create X, the all-purpose utility”he stated in a tweet on October 5. If nothing extra has been stated, the undertaking is nevertheless straightforward to establish. Presumably, the X platform ought to appear to be a “tremendous app” bringing collectively many companies, together with Twitter, on the mannequin of what WeChat is in China. However, it’s not anticipated that the varied firms of Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink …) will likely be grouped collectively in a single block. “I do not see a transparent technique to [les] collect underneath a single entity, not at this stage in any case”the Tesla boss instructed analysts.