Yeah but does that really compare to a single man destroying a $44 Billion dollar company?
He threw $44 billion at it for the right to destroy it. It wasnt worth that much.
He actually threw $44 billion at it because he’s a fucking idiot who wanted to manipulate stock prices and then was masterfully forced into the purchase by Twitter’s legal team.
However, yes, he has since been destroying it, likely to the benefit of investors such as the Saudis.
Yeah this ratio is lame. Pretty sure me and like one other guy could probably destroy at least a $800 million dollar company.
Not a gamer, but I will watch the occasional GN video just for the appreciation of their brand of investigative journalism.
The opening seconds of this video show this is at least in part, a Serbian company. That makes me assume there is probably additional financial grift and embezzlement tied directly to local organized crime groups.
It’s been at least a decade since I’ve done any academic level review on the political economies in the post-Soviet bloc, but organized crime is pretty systemically entrenched in those countries. Unless something dramatic has changed the last 5-10 years.
My favorite was the Bulgarian Thick Necks, purely because of the name. They were organized crime groups that formed from former USSR top level athletic programs i.e. wrestlers. As far as I know, that wasn’t their official name, just a colloquial term for that type of post-Soviet mafioso.
There is some good reading to be had that explains the specific roles that different groups of former Soviet elites were allowed to fill within the corrupt power vacuum that followed the collapse. A lot of the Putin era assassinations were people who tried to branch out e.g. oligarch businessman who tried to gain political power, or vice versa.
There is some good reading to be had that explains the specific roles that different groups of former Soviet elites were allowed to fill within the corrupt power vacuum that followed the collapse.
Can you recommend any good books? I haven’t studied Russia much but recently read Killer In The Kremlin and would like to read more.
