No. He knew about the company's finances because that's part of M&A due diligence.
https://morganandwestfield.com/knowledge/due-diligence-check...
> Musk and his co-investors collectively cut a check for more than $30 billion of their own money for the Twitter deal. That money would be at risk if Twitter required a debt restructuring down the line.
0: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/twitters-massive-reven...
Word was prior to the takeover, their debt was on the order of $200M.
> It's not clear how much of the $5.29 billion debt Twitter had before the acquisition was refinanced or remained with the company. It's also not clear how much of the $2.7 billion in cash that Twitter held as of the end of June it got to keep once it went private.
0: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/twitters-massive-reven...
"Once he got access to the company’s finances, the Tesla boss realized it was losing millions of dollars every day [...]"
He knew it would be losing $millions/day because he forced the situation that created the debt.
I stopped reading at that point, not interested in dissecting how a beat-sweetener slides into obsequious myth building.