• MagicShel@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      Like everything else in that world itā€™s really fucking complicated. He didnā€™t get a check for $53 billion. He got a huge chunk of Tesla. First, I donā€™t know of he gets it all at once, but second, even if he does it takes something like 6 months before heā€™s allowed to sell it or use it as collateral due to being leadership at Tesla. Also the value is falling, so by the time he gets to sell it, itā€™ll be worth less than today.

      Also, I think this guy (or at least his companies) has monthly bills in the hundreds of millions between all his failing companies - boring company, starlink, Twitter. All of them are losing money. But what his personal finances look like I really canā€™t know.

      Caveat: this is my understanding pieced together from a bunch of sources I consider reliable, and upon which I relied for my earlier comment. Iā€™m not an encyclopedia and could be wrong about some things.