Billionaire Elon Musk struck a deal on Monday buy social network Twitter at a cost of $44 million† An operation that the magnate of South African descent managed to complete after a few intense weeks of negotiations, and which places him as the leader of one of the most popular platforms in social networks. An Elon Musk who combines a successful business career with a somewhat more disparate sentimental life† Discover the various ups and downs Musk has gone through regarding his love story, and the most infamous scandals involving the business mogul.
On April 25, Wall Street suspended the listing of Twitter Inc. on the stock exchange for an impending deal between the company and businessman Elon Musk. Before the operation was completed, Musk addressed his followers through this social network to make it clear that: the purchase of the platform will not imply a lack of freedom when it comes to criticizing it via this one: “I hope even my worst critics carry on” Twitter“Because that’s what freedom of speech means,” the Tesla magnate wrote. A message that he would supplement with a statement in which he indicated that “Freedom of speech is the foundation of a functioning democracy”and that “Twitter it is the digital square where vital issues for the future of humanity are discussed”.
Negotiations between the tycoon and the platform gained momentum over the weekend, following the stalemate in talks that appeared to be thriving weeks ago. Elon Musk is in control of a platform where millions of users from around the world exchange opinions on a daily basis; and that It has become increasingly popular among political, social and economic referents from all corners of the planet. His goal with this new asset is to unlock the “huge potential” Musk says the platform has: “I want too” Twitter be better than ever by improving the product with new features, making algorithms open source to increase trust, the . defeat bone by spam and authenticating all people,” he added in the statement.
the business magnate had already bought 9.2% of the shares at the beginning of April by Twitter Inc.., becoming the shareholder with the most participation in the platform. Bret Taylor, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Twitter, reported that the agency evaluated Musk’s proposal by focusing on “value, security and financing.” In addition, he found it “beneficial for the platform’s shareholders”. A takeover after which the billionaire businessman was invited to join the board of Twitter, a proposal he rejected. A few days later, on April 14, Elon Musk launched a surprise offer to gain control of the company, stating that he wanted to “unlock” its potential as a bastion of free speech. Following the announcement of the purchase, the shares of Twitter rose about 6%although the platform has announced that it will no longer be listed on the exchange.
Elon Musk, the Canadian and American nationalized billionaire businessman; he is currently the richest man in the world according to Forbes† The physicist and programmer of South African descent has amassed an enormous fortune, mainly thanks to his participation in companies such as Tesla one of both SpaceX. When buying TwitterElon Musk continues to fatten up net valuewhich according to this sheet already has a value of $273.6 billion† When it comes to his personal life, Musk has gone through all kinds of ups and downs in his extended love story. In the year 2000 he married his first wifeCanadian novelist Justine Wilson, with whom he has a total six children† The first was a boy they named Nevada Alexander, who was born in 2002 and died of sudden infant death a few weeks ago. Soon after, the couple had twins and later triplets. After eight years of intense love, they signed their divorce at the end of 2008. Their second marriage was also fraught with controversy; and it is that businessman married on two separate occasions (in 2010 and 2013), with British actress Tallullah Riley, with whom he had no offspring. A few years later, in 2017, Elon Musk started a relationship with actress Amber Heard† who had just divorced the famous actor Johnny Depp. The couple had been dating for a year and a half and ended up being distant due to “a matter of agendas”. A reason that also led him to divorce his last wife, Claire Elise Boucher; known professionally as Grimes.
Elon Musk started dating Ukrainian-Canadian songwriter in early 2018, and made his newfound romance public in the spring, on the red carpet of the New York Metropolitan Museum gala. Beginning of May 2020 first and only child togetherwhich they called XÆA-12† A more than singular name, the meaning of which would soon become apparent: “The X stands for ‘the unknown variable’, while Æ refers to the ‘elven spelling of Ai’, meaning love and artificial intelligence.” It was Musk himself who decided on the numerical part of the name, as A-12 represents the “precursor to the SR-17,” the pair’s favorite aircraft “because it has no weapons, no defenses, just speed,” Grimes explained. . † The successful businessman has stated more than once that he eventually called him “X”. One name that brought a lot of controversy, as California law does not allow people to be registered with a name that contains numbers. Newborns must be registered “using the 26 alphabetic letters of the English language”, although apostrophes and hyphens are valid. The couple played with Roman numerals and the child was eventually registered as X A-Xii†
the former partner announced their divorce on September 24 pointing to the distance as one of the reasons for this new Musk break. The Tesla owner later claimed that her job “needs to be in Texas most of the time” while she’s “mostly in Los Angeles.” Elon Musk has on occasion wanted to emphasize that it is a `semi-separation´: “We still love each other, we see each other often and we get along well”. It’s not the first controversy the Tesla tycoon has been plunged into, and it certainly won’t be the last.† A controversy just unleashed by the social network he now owns; and it’s been that since he opened his account Twitter, it didn’t stop to surround him. Like when posted in 2018 in which he indicated that he had ‘secured funding’ to withdraw Tesla of the stock market at $420 a share, a situation that turned out to be untrue, but drove the prices of this car company up. An issue that has led to him being under surveillance by authorities in the United States.
On October 31, shortly after news broke that Elon Musk had deposed Jeff Bezos as the richest man in the world; the director of the United Nations World Food Programme, David Beasley, posted on Twitter in which he encouraged the billionaire businessman to team up with his fortune to end world hunger: “Elon, to celebrate I offer you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: Help us save 42 million people from starvation for just $6.6 billion! Offer will expire soon… and is also alive,” he wrote Elon Musk wouldn’t be long in comingclaiming he didn’t believe those millions would solve the problem of world poverty: “If the WFP can describe in this Twitter thread exactly how $6 billion will solve world hunger, I will Tesla now and I will.” It has recently become news again after challenge Putin himself to hand-to-hand combat: “I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to a competition. The prize is Ukraine,” Musk said via his favorite social network. The businessman insisted he was “completely serious” and… did not hesitate to go directly to the official Kremlin account with the aim of applying more pressure: “Do you accept this fight?” wrote.
Source: Marie Claire
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