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Originally Posted by limon
he hasn't actually done any of that, hes parlayed his money and hired some smart people it seems. hes a fish on a heater. its like saying jamie gold, jerry yang and robert varkoni were/are the best players in poker. you look at how they play the hands not the outlier results. he made 1st year business school mistakes on the twitter purchase . he waived due diligence got locked into a 33 billion to high price and lost in court multiple times while getting rolled by the twitter board. it would be like folding AA pre flop in a cash game or not raising the nuts on the river. he played the hand like a moron because he is a moron.
The lawyers twitter hired which successfully forced him to buy twitter, he ended up paying for himself as the new owner of twitter, and then he argued they charged too much because it was such an easy case to win.
His legal argument to back out of buying twitter was that the user data provided to him contained too many bot accounts, which was obviously irrelevant due to the fact that he waived his due diligence voluntarily for no apparent reason.
It was probably the most bumbling incompetent corporate buyout of all time. I think folding AA preflop as an analogy is giving him too much credit. He'd have to play one of the worst hands of poker ever in order for it to be analogous.