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Pretty enormous amount of money required. Say half of TSLA shareholders take the $420, that's approx ~$40bn required. Then there's another $10bnish of debt refinancing required, and probably many more billion for future product development and new assembly lines.

I don't think Softbank could finance this, it would be well over half their entire fund.

Saudi maybe - but still quite a chunk of change for them.

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Or Apple, Google, maybe even Jeff from Amazon. Musk changes the rules of the game on a regular basis.

Just because those companies have massive market caps and cash reserves doesn't mean they can cut a check for 40B+ to buy a company that is burning cash. Hard to imagine any board signing off on that deal.

> Just because those companies have massive market caps and cash reserves doesn't mean they can cut a check for 40B+ to buy a company that is burning cash.

Cash reserves mean they can.

> Hard to imagine any board signing off on that deal.

Right, conservative (appropriately so!) corporate decision making means they likely won't, not can't.

I would imagine he talked to his institutional investors it could be far less than half.

Looking at ownership summary, loads are held by ETFs, which I assume would have to divest as most track only public shares.

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