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		afavour on Nov 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter to start layoffs -internal email The maths don't even begin to work out there. He just made Twitter take on $13bn of debt to finance his purchase, the company will owe around $1bn a year in interest payments that it didn't used to. The layoffs announced today probably won't even cover that extra interest.

shaburn on Nov 4, 2022 [–]

That's probably a billion in recurring expense of the worst kind. Debt can be satisfied with an equity issuance in the future post restructure.

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