{"id":570026,"date":"2022-04-17T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T10:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/?p=570026"},"modified":"2022-04-17T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T10:30:02","slug":"binance-ceo-jokes-about-buying-twitter-elon-seeking-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/binance-ceo-jokes-about-buying-twitter-elon-seeking-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Binance CEO Jokes About Buying Twitter as Rumors Grow That Elon is Seeking Partners to Increase His Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quick take:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CZ has joked about buying Twitter in response to an Elon Musk tweet that suggested the Twitter board had adopted the Poison pill option out of concern for other bidders<\/li>\n<li>Binance CEO later clarified that he had no intention of buying Twitter and was okay with Elon running the social media platform<\/li>\n<li>Elon Musk has been rumored to be considering partnering up with other individuals or entities to purchase Twitter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Binance CEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/el-salvadors-president-meets-binance-ceo-to-discuss-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Changpeng Zhao<\/a>, has joked about buying the now hotly sought-after social media platform of Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>CZ was responding to a Tweet by Elon Musk that suggested the board at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/trons-justin-sun-outbids-elon-musk-twitter-at-60\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> had adopted the poison pill option out of concern for other bidders that wanted to buy the social media platform. CZ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cz_binance\/status\/1515571448429043721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">explained<\/a> that he was &#8216;just joking&#8217; and that he had &#8216;no intention for Twitter at all&#8217;. Furthermore, he was okay with Elon running the social media company.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_570027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-570027\" style=\"width: 537px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CZ-Twitter-Elon-Musk-Conversation.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-570027\" src=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CZ-Twitter-Elon-Musk-Conversation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CZ-Twitter-Elon-Musk-Conversation.jpg 537w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CZ-Twitter-Elon-Musk-Conversation-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CZ-Twitter-Elon-Musk-Conversation-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CZ-Twitter-Elon-Musk-Conversation-500x497.jpg 500w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CZ-Twitter-Elon-Musk-Conversation-269x267.jpg 269w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-570027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot courtesy of Twitter.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Rumors Increase that Elon Musk is Seeking Partners to Increase His Bid on Twitter<\/h2>\n<p>CZ joking about buying Twitter comes in the wake of rumors that Elon Musk is seeking to partner with like-minded investors to buy the social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/15\/elon-musk-considers-bringing-in-partners-on-twitter-bid-sources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the New York Post<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/tesla-block-blockstream-to-mine-bitcoin-in-texas-solar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla<\/a> CEO and Space X founder could be teaming up with private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners. The latter was planning to co-invest with Elon in 2018 when he planned to take Tesla private. Furthermore, the Co-CEO of Silver Lake Partners is already on the Twitter board, making the possibility of a partnership more plausible soon.<\/p>\n<p>Another exciting possibility is that Elon Musk partners with Oracle Founder and Executing Chairman Larry Elison. This option <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garyblack00\/status\/1515345171428356099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was explored<\/a> by the Managing Partner of The Future Fund LLC, Gary Black, through the following statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">So what is Plan B? Elon\u2019s not about to give up so fast. My bet: He pairs up with 1-2 PE partners and his friend Larry Ellison and sweetens his <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">$TWTR<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"> bid to $60. Other media\/tech firms (e.g. <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">$MSFT<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">) who can get FTC approval are submitting bids.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Feature image courtesy of Fortune magazine]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick take: CZ has joked about buying Twitter in response to an Elon Musk tweet that suggested the Twitter board had adopted the Poison pill option out of concern for other bidders Binance CEO later clarified that he had no intention of buying Twitter and was okay with Elon running the social media platform Elon Musk has been rumored to be considering partnering up with other individuals or entities to purchase Twitter Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, has joked about buying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":570028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[108073,2],"tags":[1119,1236,4718,7937,1212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570029,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570026\/revisions\/570029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}