Matt Levine, Columnist

Elon Musk Might Buy Twitter This Week

Also UBS tech vs. people and JPMorgan advisers vs. private bankers.

October 24, 2022 at 4:44 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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“The most entertaining outcome is the most likely,” Elon Musk once tweeted, as far as I can tell not about a particular event but as a general life philosophy. In that spirit, let me put out into the world that the most entertaining outcome of Musk’s deal to buy Twitter Inc. is obviously:

This does not exactly hang together for a number of reasons, but would it be funny? Yes. Is it the most likely outcome? No. Is it a possible outcome? Not really, no. But everything about this deal has skated pretty close to the edge of the possible, so who cares, I am typing it anyway, just in case.