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by JumpCrisscross 249 days ago
> Selling 100B worth of stocks for anything close to 100B is not possible. That volume would mini-crash the entire exchange

Nasdaq trades about half a trillion dollars a day [1]. Even if Musk were an idiot and dumped $100bn in one day, it would crash Tesla's stock price, not the Nasdaq.

If Musk wanted to give OpenAI $100bn, the best way to do it would be to (a) borrow against his shares or (b) given OpenAI his (non-voting) shares.

[1] https://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=DailyMarketSumma...