Fidelity has again marked down the value of its shares in X Holdings, which the mutual fund giant helped Elon Musk buy for $44 billion when the company was known as Twitter.

By the numbers: Fidelity believes that X is worth 71.5% less than at the time of purchase, according to a new disclosure that runs through the end of November 2023 (Fidelity revalues private shares on a one-month lag).

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    when the company was known as Twitter

    It’s still known as twitter

    Fun fact: 𝕏 is actually a Unicode symbol, so musk can’t trademark it

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      𝕏 is actually a Unicode symbol, so musk can’t trademark it

      That’s not true, it absolutely can be a trademark. You might be thinking of copyright - he can’t copyright the current 𝕏 logo.

      The rights you’d get from each protection are different and a sensible business probably would want both. Trademark protection would prevent another tech company trading as 𝕏; copyright protection for the logo would let you set terms on how it is used.

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    Quick Mr.Musk, before they realize your an imbecile, find some new piece of vaporware to hype up to your stans.

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        I’m pretty sure he said “We dug our own grave with Cybertruck”, not Twitter.

        I think he said that “Earth will know Advertisers are to blame for Twitter’s downfall”, or something to that effect. You know, the more ridiculous quote.

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          That’s correct, I was harkening esteemed musk critic Thunderf00t, who purposely changes the quote depending on the specific subject of his videos.

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    I always made a joke where I said Elon would immediately call the CEO or whatever a pedo.

    But the last Elon Meltdown, he did call them a pedo in under 9 hours.

    Let’s see how long it takes!

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    Xtwitter is obviously a dumpster fire, but it’s Tesla that’s going to disintegrate the most wealth. Does anybody really think that company is worth more than the GDP of Taiwan?

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    I mean, I don’t even understand why Fidelity felt the need to join the buyout. I guess they own a lot of meta stock so figure they’ll make up the stupidity induced losses?

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      IIRC, Fidelity already owned a bunch of shares and managed to just hold onto them through the buyout.

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      Are you aware Meta stock is one of the best big tech performing stocks this year with 200% growth after the COVID bubble crash, and is just under 5% off it’s ATH?

      It’s almost like professional businesses know what they’re doing (most the time) and random Lemming/redditors know actual jack shit.

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        I don’t think you understood my comment. I was implying that they owned enough meta stock that sinking Twitter would be a net zero situation for them if meta picked up the slack by taking twitters market share. They actually own so much they might even make a profit.

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    I delighted in being able to show this headline to guests last night after we’d riffed on what an idiot Lonnie was a couple hours earlier. Lonnie-boy just keeps delivering. When he fucks up his fortune and lives in shame and disgrace I’ll be happy. Until then, I don’t want to hear about his every dumb post. But news of his company’s failure can continue. Please proceed.

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      Well there’s a finite amount, unless they give it a big jump, then they could slash it repeatedly.

      I know you said years but the oldest link there looks like it’s late ‘22. Did you mean that one or longer than 13 months ago?

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          😁 I thought about this when posting, but unlike numbers a company only has to devalue so much before it collapses. Like a stilt house and every day you remove 50% of each support beam, you’ll find the house crashes down before you have to worry about never hitting zero support beams.

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        Can you uh, read?

        The very first result in that photo, from May, says that it was marked down three times already. This is number 4 at a minimum.

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    i think his brain interface already works, and he already had them installed in the heads of everyone who backed that deal