Tech IndustryOct 4, 2022
McAfeeRiley Reid

Parag Agrawal is a genius for triggering Elon Musk to overpay for Twitter at $54.20/share

It is likely this exchange that tugged at Elon’s ego and ended up with him signing a deal without doing due diligence and then tried his best to weasel out of the deal for months. Amateur negotiator: I will buy it for $54.2 Master galaxy brain negotiator Elon Musk: I will buy it for $54.2 ... no wait, I need a few weeks to humiliate myself in public and through legal discovery ... make it stop yes I will buy it for $54.2 Well done Parag! 👏 Bonus: We got some juicy texts and emails to and from Elon and his associates in the process.

McAfee Riley Reid OP Oct 4, 2022

Imagine having to buy the rental car you spent a month beating the shit out of Cheers Elon!

Twitter BloodBird🩸 Oct 4, 2022

Lol I love this take, fuck Elon Musk ❤️

AMD Rkft55 Oct 4, 2022

Elon is surrounded by yes men probably. Huge ego. Cannot tolerate Parag's language. Well done Parag. Not easy to be in that position. Handled it like an adult. While Elon was a whiny tantrum throwing teenage boy. Used to like Elon, but these texts give me insight into how disrespectful these people are to people who they consider beneath themselves.

Twitter WKtc24 Oct 4, 2022

The language from parag isn't even that aggressive, man I used to look up to Elon for his space dream and making self landing rocket a reality Everything seems to go to shit with that guy for the past few years

AMD Rkft55 Oct 4, 2022

He'll probably establish everything on the tech front. But here we're talking about how he is as a human. And on that front he may be a disappointment.

KIOXIA oldH24 Oct 4, 2022

Did Twitter disclosed no of bot account what Elon is demanding all the while?

McAfee Riley Reid OP Oct 4, 2022

Elon’s own team of data scientists pretty much came to the same conclusion as that of Twitter with regards to the bots. https://news.yahoo.com/elon-musks-own-data-scientists-233141318.html Plus, it didn’t really matter. There was no way he was winning this or could get out of this. Follow Matt Levine’s takes on Money Stuff. He was right on the money since the start.

KIOXIA oldH24 Oct 4, 2022

I don't care about Elon, I wanted to know for myself. No official figure but the article says between 5-10%

Chicago Trading Company 22SAS Oct 4, 2022

When it comes to $$, never mess with a baniya.

New
HisElement Oct 4, 2022

Hey, mind referring for a role at CTC?

Chicago Trading Company 22SAS Oct 4, 2022

Sure, DM me

Accenture FPBG88 Oct 4, 2022

Parag is going to be the first one getting PIPed

Rivian zoom_out Oct 4, 2022

He will have a happy sailing off into the sunset on his golden 🪂

Square fhte48 Oct 5, 2022

If he gets ousted within a year of the takeover, he's entitled to a fat severance package.

Argo AI argoop Oct 4, 2022

Parag is the only one who came away looking good in the Elon texts. Including Elon.

Barclays PLC 38dhh Oct 4, 2022

Check the 1st 2-3 text's exchanged by Musk and Co.

Google Federator Oct 6, 2022

man Jcal is such a s*mp