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DougDoug

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Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

That's what we're getting to.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

At this point in the story.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

Yeah, he's bought it, yeah, twice.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

He bought it himself, and then he bought it with his other company to bail it out.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

But now, you've combined a money-losing company, which is XAI, with a money-losing social media platform.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

Do wrongs, make a right.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

That's what I thought the plan would be.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

But it turns out they're losing, I think I have a quote here,

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

$1 billion a month.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

XAI burns through $1 billion a month.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

This is after, I'm not gonna do the whole timeline here, but around the time of this article, XAI was trying to fundraise because they're understandably running out of money.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

You can't spend a billion dollars a month and keep afforded to buy all the stuff you need for Grok, all the stuff you need for Twitter, everything.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

So yeah, you can see right here, they're trying to raise $9.3 billion in debt and equity.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

Well, it turns out that the market was like, I don't know.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

Like you have to give us pretty high interest rates for that.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

Cause we, cause you're losing so much money.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

And so rather than do that, he's like, wait a minute, I got a plan.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

I got an even bigger company that can raise even more money.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

This is SpaceX.

Lemonade Stand
The Biggest Merger Ever | Ep. 050 Lemonade Stand ๐Ÿ‹

So now this shit sandwich is getting rolled up into what I would say, and I think...