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Musk: Twitter’s valuation has halved

Musk: Twitter’s valuation has halved

In brief

By his own admission, Elon Musk has driven the value down of Twitter to less than half of what he paid to acquire it last year.

In a memo sent to staff, seen by tech site Platformer, Musk reportedly told staff they would receive stock grant based on a $20bn valuation for Twitter.

Musk was forced to acquire $44bn last year, having first made a formal bid for the company at $54.20 a share and then spectacularly trying to back out of the acquisition when shares in the company fell significantly.

A recent report from Vox revealed over half of the top 1,000 advertisers on Twitter prior to Musk’s acquisition no longer show ads on the platform

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