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Re:Musk’s Twitter Purchase Was a Leveraged Buyout by toomuchtodo on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:41PM (#33470761)
That’s one of the LBO playbooks, but it’s not the only method. In this case, Musk believes he can trim the fat and make Twitter profitable. But if advertisers flee and he thinks he can rely on verified payments alone, everyone on HN who signals interest for a social network they pay for will get to see how viable such a business model truly is.
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Re:Musk’s Twitter Purchase Was a Leveraged Buyout by sidibe on Friday November 04, 2022 @01:45PM (#33470856)
> everyone on HN who signals interest for a social network they pay for will get to see how viable such a business model truly is.

Let me get ahead of you there. They would only pay for a quality product which Twitter is definitely not, as a ruiner of modern discourse. Of course there's also the catch that there are no quality products anymore. The whole world of products is devolving at almost the speed of Google Search. But definitely paying is the superior business model

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