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The Twitter Takeover - Let that sink in!


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It was October 26, 2022 — When the world watched as billionaire Elon Musk did something extraordinary! Elon Musk walks into Twitter headquarters carrying a sink.

Not a briefcase.

Not an entourage.

But a sink!

The symbolism was theatrical. But what followed was not theatre.

It was a leveraged buyout that placed roughly $13 billion in debt onto Twitter’s balance sheet — with annual interest obligations estimated north of $1 billion.

From that moment forward, this stopped being a social media story.

It’s became a story about power.

About leverages.

Most importantly, about how control shifts in the modern economy — not through factories or oil fields, but through platforms.

In today’s episode, we’ll unpack what really happened when one of the world’s most celebrated entrepreneurs took control of the world’s loudest digital town square.

So… let that sink in!

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