Elon Musk says Twitter is now price lower than half of what he purchased it for — and, if you happen to’ll recall, that was like $44 billion … so, yeah, a BIG drop-off certainly.

The Chief Twit made the brand new valuation in a company-wide electronic mail he despatched to remaining staff — this per the NYT, which says it acquired its arms on a replica. Within the inner memo, EM says Twitter is at present price $20 billion … $24 billion lower than his buy value.

Whereas that will appear abysmal, Elon truly informed his employees that — for a time — issues had been vulnerable to being a lot worse after he took the reins … explaining Twitter was 4 months away from working out of cash and going bankrupt at one level over the previous a number of months.

In his notice, he reportedly goes on to say that “radical modifications” he is imposed had been obligatory to economize — together with the mass layoffs and different cost-cutting measures (i.e. auctions, and many others.). The Occasions stories EM additionally stated Twitter ought to be checked out as an “inverse start-up.”

Now, as for why he was spilling these deets to the Twitter fam … the Occasions says he was explaining their new inventory compensation package deal. Principally, Twitter staff will obtain inventory grants for the holding firm he used to purchase Twitter — the “X Company” — which can function beneath the present $20B estimate. Staff will then be capable to promote and money in on their privately held inventory each six months. His different firm, SpaceX, acts equally.