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They're probably just double-underlining all of the chapters about valuation and due diligence.
I am very interested in the amount of people that are still working there solely because of an H1B or something equity related. >

I’m interested on how much that pizza oven is >

If it's installed I can't see it being sold for anything, more like a remove it and you can have it for free. >

I got a wood fired stone pizza oven out of a restaurant for free doing just this. Thing was made in Italy and shipped here for the restaurant to go bust in under a year. New owners were going from Italian to Chinese food. It’s huge and in storage… but I got it. Lol >

Half my storage is stuff that I don't need but took for cheap or free. I'm like: "this thing is good an I could do that with it" make the plan, take the thing, pack for storage because I don't have time to do it now and it stay there for years:)) >

Yeah. Same. I’ve got 5 pizza ovens. Favorites are gas fired stone blodgetts built in 89 and 91. Stackable deck ovens. They don’t make em like they used to. >

You got 5 pizza ovens??? Hahah nice. If I knew you I'd be bugging you to host a pizza party. >

Isn't it more expensive to pay storage fees for years then it would be to buy one pizza oven that fits in your house that you can actually use and enjoy? >

That's what garages are for. If you can afford to have a pizza oven or think about having one, I'm sure you got space. Now the pizza ovens I know are intense. I can't imagine 5.. like they build the pizza restaurants around the ovens. I worked with some that were 60 years old and did wonders but there was no way that was moving so I'm guessing this guy has smaller pizza ovens. >

I have 4 Blodgett 1060s. They are not small. Lol >

The garage sale with continue until morale improves >

He's gonna start auctioning employees soon >

He probably wouldn't even be ideologically opposed to that, given his family's emerald mines and the fact that most of the remaining employees are on a work visa. >

The only people still working there need the job or they get deported.  Elon's slave owning history is coming back faster than his hairline did. >

I have to imagine there's a fair amount of incels that would throw themselves on pikes for him. >

Not anymore, he had a few but they got fired too. Lol >

Q: how do you make a small fortune when buying a popular online communication service?
A: you start with a large fortune. >

That’s akin to the (very) old joke I first heard in the 80s. 
How do you make a million dollars? Start with a billion and buy an airline. >

is that specifically a trump joke or just in general, i know he had an airline that was a huge failure >

I've seen this joke attributed to Richard Branson as a self-deprecating quip but I strongly suspect that's apocryphal.
(He did get into the airline business in the 80s though.) >

This. It was his quote, regarding his airline Virgin Atlantic. >

Which airline is one of the better flying experiences I've had.  I actually paid attention to the safety message. >

Musk has interest payments due at the end of the month so it would make sense he would have a garage sale given how much cash he’s lost this year. >

Step 1) buy a company whose assets are mostly counted under digital properties including a website and a brand name for way above price using loans which you leverage against the company
Step 2) realize you can't afford the interest on the loans and begin to panic 
Step 3) fire staff, downsize the company, so it can't maintain the digital property properly 
Step 4) hold a garage sale hoping to earn a few thousand of whatever physical assets the company has
Step 5) regret buying a kitchen sink to make a joke when you arrived because that was money you clearly didn't have
Honestly this is quality entertainment, if it wasn't for the people who lost jobs and the artists etc who have built businesses on the back of using Twitter as an outlet I would heartily recommend Musk keeps burning his image to the ground with this circus clusterfuck. >


Step 5) regret buying a kitchen sink to make a joke when you arrived because that was money you clearly didn't have

Yeah what's up with that? I never quite got it. >

Have you heard of the saying "Let that sink in"? 
"Elon musk just bought Twitter for 44bn, let that sink in."
..then he was literally let in(the building) while carrying a sink, thus them "letting that sink in".
Idk if that explanation helped >

It does but it doesn’t make sense in context. At that point, he’s tried to back out of the deal for months… Maybe it would be funny if he’d closed the deal naturally. >

It's not funny regardless. Musk can't help but try, and fail, to be clever. He's so desperate to be liked. Who knew a billionaire could be such a complete loser. >

What's funny is if he had just shut up,  paid a million a year to a team of pr people with the sole purpose of getting people to like him, he'd probably have a bigger following now than he did at his peak. >

I got the impression that this is exactly what he used to do, but thought he could do a better job himself so he fired the PR people around the time those kids were trapped in the cave. Seems to me that was around the time his public image started turning to shit. >

seems like something john oliver would buy >

This was my thought as well. He's buying something from this auction to showcase in an upcoming episode for sure. >

They had a few good chairs for $50 that usually retails for $1000+, I’m sure they’re all gone now. >

Oh man you could get so many cheap Aeron chairs in 2001 if you were in the area. >

I think the scary thing in all this is, if you look at the auction pictures, you can see how empty most of the office building is. Like there are floors that are just empty.
Next will be the carpets >

How about the copper wiring? >

That would probably make the building owners unhappy. But he seems to have stopped paying them rent, so they're probably already upset. >

This isn't the kind of action you typically see in a multinational media corporation. 
I'm sure business professors are already rewriting their textbooks about how valuation, due diligence and Delaware's Court of Chancery works in the 21st century.