Alibaba breaks itself up in six

Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six by iforgotpassword on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:01PM (#35427363)

Exactly, Ma was kinda struggling to get a train of thought across linguistically and half the time when Musk interrupted him he was rather making fun of some poor choice of words and being like "lol whatever" than trying to actually engage in a conversation.

And I guess now with the Twitter shitshow Musk doesn't exactly look like a genius either.

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Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six by kranke155 on Monday April 03, 2023 @01:58PM (#35428458)

Pretty much impossible to defend Elon's Twitter tenure. Can't think of a single thing he did that made that company more valuable.

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Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six by gordian-mind on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:22PM (#35432794)

What about laying off 75% of its workforce and open sourcing the twitter algorithm?

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Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six by kranke155 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:38PM (#35446183)

Is the company more valuable ?

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Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six by gordian-mind on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @12:42PM (#35456920)

Well it increases revenue, so certainly. The open sourcing increases it ethicality; I guess you could say it's not direct value.

In terms of pure market cap, which I'm not sure how relevant it is, it seems that the current valuation (41 billion) is higher than when he offered to buy it (34 billion in April 2022).

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Re:Alibaba breaks itself up in six by kranke155 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @02:31PM (#35458514)

I'd love to see a user count. My impression is a few people left, but I'm not sure.

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