Business Maverick: Elon Musk sells $6.9bn of Tesla to avoid Twitter fire sale

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The Tesla founder has sold $6.9-billion (R14.5-billion) of his shares in Tesla – his biggest sale on record – saying he needed cash in case he is forced to go ahead with his aborted deal to buy Twitter.

to partially fund the purchase with a margin loan tied to his Tesla stake and increased the size of the equity component of the deal to $33.5 billion. He had previously announced that he secured $7.1 billion of equity commitments from investors including billionaire Larry Ellison, Sequoia Capital and Binance.

“I’ll put the odds at 75% that he’s buying Twitter. I’m shocked,” said Gene Munster, a former technology analyst who’s now a managing partner at venture-capital firm Loup Ventures. “This is going to be a headwind for Tesla in the near term. In the long term, all that matters is deliveries and gross margin.”

At the weekend, Musk tweeted that if Twitter provided its method of sampling accounts to determine the number of bots and how they are confirmed to be real, “the deal should proceed on original terms”.If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they’re confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms.— Elon Musk Musk, 51, has now sold around $32-billion worth of stock in Tesla over the past 10 months.

Tesla shares have risen about 35% from recent lows reached in May, though are still down about 20% this year. With a $250.2-billion fortune, Musk is the world’s richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, but his wealth has fallen around $20 billion this year as Tesla shares declined.

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USD 6.9 equivalent to R14.5 billion..

6.9 billion USD is 114 billion rands.

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