Fidelity helped Elon Musk with his Twitter takeover, earning a stake in X that's become increasingly less valuable.
Fidelity’s Blue Chip Growth Fund cut the value of its position in X by 5.7% in February, implying a 73% decline in the former Twitter Inc. since Elon Musk bought the social-media company.
Fidelity, which gained a stake in X by helping Musk complete his $44 billion purchase in October 2022, valued the position at $5.28 million as of Feb. 29, according to a report posted Saturday listing the fund’s holdings. A month earlier, the value was $5.6 million.
He doesn't "feel" any of this except in the ego, and the ego would hurt more if he admitted he was wrong. He can private jet around all day and not run out of money for the rest of his life. Maybe it delays his plans to be able to more fully buy people, but that's not a feeling I'm curious to feel.
There are people out there still claiming that Elon has proven you can run Twitter and similar companies with fewer employees so all tech companies should be laying more people off.
If anyone wants to take a stab at how twitter at 44bil was a blue chip growth stock, I am allll ears because it means I’ve been doing this wrong whole life .
"Blue chip growth fund" is just the name of a Fidelity mutual fund. It invests at least 80% into blue chip stocks like Coca Cola and American Express, and the rest into companies it hopes will grow.
The latter category includes X, Lyft, Roblox, lululemon, Rad Power Bikes and many others. Notably, a few investments in that category (like Sonder) are now completely worthless.