After interviewing “more than 40 people who have spent time socially with Mr. Musk over the past 15 years,” The New York Times has discovered Musk likes Nathan Fielder, costume parties, and Monty Python.
Also, Twitter is an important emotional outlet for him.
[The New York Times]
Hey, remember when I was like “gee, ApeCoin seems weird and if I were the SEC I’d be looking into it” back in March? Yeah, well, the SEC is looking into it. Doesn’t necessarily mean there will be charges, though!
I guess we know how the horse feels about the metaverse!
Payment services get more money when you spend more money — so more and more places are asking for a tip. Plus, there are little behavioral nudges those payment services are making so that it’s likelier you’ll tip.
Bloomberg’s columnist, a longtime favorite of mine, interrupted his time off, again, to explain the difference between deal lawyers (friendly) and litigators (rude) and why that matters for the Musk deal.
Both teams employed more than 50 lawyers! The legal bills for Musk alone may be as high as $100 million! I should have gone to law school because these guys charge as much as $2,500 an hour and M&A law is hilarious!
He’s made a filing with the SEC about how he actually will buy Twitter and close the deal after all.... as long as Twitter drops its suit. I’ve updated our story.