[trevoragilbert]

Why would it be to a conglomerate? It’s more likely that existing US investors raise extra money to just buy it and run it locally. Existing antitrust environment would make it extremely unlikely an existing consumer tech co will be allowed to buy it and non-consumer wouldn’t make sense.

[bdcravens]

No reason, other than the price (likely around $100B, more than twice the price Elon paid for Twitter, or roughly the market cap of Starbucks)

[trevoragilbert]

Far less if the personalization and recommendation system isn’t included.