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by dhc02 1519 days ago
The money he's secured is mostly loans, not venture capital, so that sort of pressure to grow or pad numbers should indeed be diminished.
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Bloomberg mentioned two loans to cover the shortfall in his equity swap (one external and one drawn on his Tesla stock), with annual interest payments in the ballpark of $1B each. So Twitter's take home pay just lost $2B of the $4B it nets annually. Losing further market share by re-engineering retweet algorithms to be kinder/gentler looks like a better bet to bury Twitter than raise it.

But mature media giants are supposed to lose money, right?