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Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by afavour on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:08PM (#33460985)
The maths don't even begin to work out there.

He just made Twitter take on $13bn of debt to finance his purchase, the company will owe around $1bn a year in interest payments that it didn't used to. The layoffs announced today probably won't even cover that extra interest.

Re:Twitter to start layoffs -internal email by shaburn on Thursday November 03, 2022 @10:39PM (#33461312)
That's probably a billion in recurring expense of the worst kind. Debt can be satisfied with an equity issuance in the future post restructure.