Now that everybody's talking about #PhonyStark's phone calls with #Putin, time to remind all y'all that, as revealed in #CharacterLimit by Kate Conger & Ryan Mac, just one day before closing his acquisition of #Twitter, #Musk was $400 million short of the $44 billion he owed, and tried to shake down Twitter board into paying it out of their cache reserves. Mysteriously,¹ he found the money overnight.

¹ When exactly #8vc, a noname firm employing two sons of Putin's oligarchs, join the deal?

X shareholders as of June 2023 included funds tied to Bill Ackman, Binance, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Less widely known was the involvement of Sean “Diddy” Combs). Bill Ackman is also a shareholder through the Pershing Square Foundation. So is 8VC, the VC firm co-founded by Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale, which has reported ties to Russian oligarchs

#Twitter #socialmedia #venturecapital #investing #russia #8VC #legal #elon #musk #elonmusk #x #elno #spacekaren

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/24/x-shareholders-as-of-june-2023-included-funds-tied-to-bill-ackman-binance-and-sean-diddy-combs/

Two children of alleged #Kremlin allies work on the investment team at #8VC, one of the investors that owns #Twitter

https://archive.is/2NnRv

#RussiaIsATerroristState #SlavaUkraini #russia #ukraine #x #elonMusk

"X" FKA "Twitter" owners list made public by court order.

There's at least one Saudi (Alwaleed bin Talal), some Qataris (Q Tetris Holding), one Palantir founder (Lonsdale / 8VC), some crypto bro scumbags (a16z / Andreessen Horowitz; see my pinned toot for more on that), more crypto scumbags (Binance), lot of Fidelity funds, that Gerber Kawasaki Tesla bro, P. Diddy, Sequoia, Bill Ackman, Saudi Kingdom fund, Larry Ellison, more crypto bros, fintech bros, tech bros, even MORE crypto bros...

tl;dr crypto bros own twitter now. wonder why they wanted it.

definitely the kind of people you want in charge of the free speech platform.

#Qatar #Palantir #8VC #a16z #AndreessenHorowitz #Binance #PuffDaddy #PDiddy #Sequoia #SequoiaCapital #BillAckman

A Major US Defense Investor Has Links To Sanctioned Russian Oligarchs

Alleged Kremlin allies Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich have sons - Denis and Jack respectively - who work on the investment team at 8VC, a firm led by Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, via Forbes

#Russia #RussianOligarch #8VC #JoeLonsdale #Palantir

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2024/08/20/8vc-russian-oligarchs/

Austin, TX: Joe Lonsdale, millionaire capitalist and co-founder of imperialist spyware company Palantir, awoke to a banner by his investment office 8VC.

Lonsdale is also a Trump campaign megadonor.

#Austin #AustinTX #Palantir #antiwar #8vc