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Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by samstave on Friday May 12, 2023 @01:57PM (#35919669)
Where exactly did that $44 billion go? With the tax incentives Twitter had from SF, and the massive layoffs... There was a fuck-ton of money that went somplace... to where?
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Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by kaynelynn on Friday May 12, 2023 @02:25PM (#35920158)
To the previous shareholders of Twitter to compensate them for the shares.
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Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by samstave on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:58PM (#35922302)
So what audience did this equate to WRT Musk with the top "shareholders"?
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Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by zdp7 on Friday May 12, 2023 @02:20PM (#35920076)
The 44B was to buy ownership of Twitter. It went to the shareholders.
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Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by samstave on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:59PM (#35922309)
So what audience did this equate to WRT Musk with the top "shareholders"?
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Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by pclmulqdq on Friday May 12, 2023 @02:14PM (#35919978)
To all the former owners of Twitter. Twitter never controlled it.
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Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by compiler-guy on Friday May 12, 2023 @02:13PM (#35919951)
The shareholders.

Anyone who had stock in Twitter got a big pile of cash.

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Re:I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of... by samstave on Saturday May 13, 2023 @06:07PM (#35933253)
nAME THEM.
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