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  • Philolurker@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    He didn’t want to buy the company. So, he’s turning it into a pet project.

    That’s a good point, and one that had not occurred to me. For all we know, he’s already mentally written off the $44 billion as a loss and is just having fun with it, with no expectation of success.

    That would explain a lot.