The soon-to-be owner of the world’s most influential social media platform will reportedly take over as interim CEO when the sale is official
with funding based on his own shares of Tesla stock and bank loans. But to foot the massive $44 billion bill he also needed a ton of outside investor money, which, it appears he got from some unlikely places.
, Musk recently secured more than $7 billion in equity funding from around 19 sources, which include sums in the hundreds of millions from various hedge funds, as well as some more notable sources, like the Saudi royal family. Per the filing, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud has agreed to purchase 34,948,975 shares of Twitter at $54.
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