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Re:2 Years at Twitter by KptMarchewa on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:39PM (#33725948)
It literally is. That's how every debt-financed corporate acquisition works. Twitter is paying this debt, not Elon from his pocket.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-buyout-will-load-twi...

Re:2 Years at Twitter by ilyt on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @08:01PM (#33726609)
So if it goes bankrupt what happens ? None of his assets aside Twitter gets seized ?
Re:2 Years at Twitter by plorkyeran on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @08:21PM (#33726766)
If Twitter fails to make payments on its debt then Morgan Stanley will become the proud new owner of Twitter. It is similar in structure to a mortgage on a house.
Re:2 Years at Twitter by midoridensha on Thursday November 24, 2022 @01:11AM (#33728243)
That seems like a really stupid loan to make then. If Twitter fails, it becomes mostly worthless, much like MySpace today. Why would a bank make such a loan? (It does seem like bankers are pretty stupid these days though, or just don't care because it's not their money.)
Re:2 Years at Twitter by robryan on Thursday November 24, 2022 @02:45AM (#33728742)
They set an interest rate in line with the risk that they are taking on. It seems like a pretty unlikely scenario where Twitter is worth nothing, if it goes bankrupt there can probably be a fairly sizable sale to recoup some value.

Allowing so long for the deal to close may have been a mistake due to what happened in the market between when they agreed to terms and when the deal closed.

Re:2 Years at Twitter by KptMarchewa on Thursday November 24, 2022 @05:20AM (#33729646)
He already paid 20B+ of his own money. Debt is only part of financing, AFAIK ~13B.