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For Twitter at least, he doesn't have shareholders. He has investors, many of whom would like nothing more than for Twitter to die so that their citizens can't use it to coordinate political action against their regime.
Only 7.1 billion out of 44 billion is from outside investments. The remaining ~36 billion was paid by Musk.
People need to stop with the conspiracies. Musk isn't playing 4d chess by tanking Twitter, he's just an idiot.
33 Billion was equity. $13 Billion was loans.
Musk's contribution is close to $25 Billion and likely puts him at 60%+ majority control of shares.
That ship sailed a while back when Elon was forced to buy Twitter. Let it burn.
What's the point of their investments then?
Control over one of the biggest "news" sites in the world probably.