Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, April 14th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Well, he went and did it.

Elon Musk told Twitter's board he wants to buy the whole company.

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Elon Musk, delivered to Twitter's Board of Directors a non-binding proposal to acquire all of Twitter's outstanding stock for $54,

20 cents a share in cash in a deal worth a total of $43 billion. Yes, he took $50 a share, added $4.20 to it. As someone on

Twitter said, I wonder how hard it was for him to decide between for 20 or 69.

Anywho, quoting Bloomberg.

The world's richest person will offer $54.20 per share

in cash, representing a 54% premium over the January 28th

closing price and a valuation of about 43 billion dollars. The social

media company shares soared 18% in pre-market trading, though I should note that when the markets opened, they were only up maybe 5%.

Musk 50 announced the offer in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday after turning down a potential board seat at the company.

The billionaire who also controls Tesla first disclosed a stake of about 9% on April 4th.

Tesla shares fell about 1.5% in pre-market trading on the news.

Twitter said that its board would review the proposal and any response would be in the best interest

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