Elon Musk Offers to Buy '100% of Twitter' with Cash

Caleb Parke : Apr 14, 2022
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"...Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it." -Elon Musk

[ToddStarnes.com] SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is offering to buy Twitter for $41.39 billion days after rejecting a seat on its board. (Screengrab image)

"I made an offer," Musk, who is currently the company's largest shareholder with 9% of its stock, tweeted with a link to the SEC filing.

"I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy," Musk said in a letter to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor.

"However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive nor serve this societal imperative in its current form," Musk continued. "Twitter needs to be transformed as a private company."

He explained: "As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder."

Musk concluded, "Twitter has extraordinary potential. I will unlock it."

The Big Tech company will review his offer with advice from Goldman Sachs & Co and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a source told Reuters.

Former Twitter shareholders sued Musk claiming they missed out on the stock price increase because he failed to disclose his stake in a timely manner. Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here