4) who'd that sucker be? How much hubris would it take to sell investors on the idea of salvaging a failing company that "the guy who killed the internal combustion engine" and "the guy who made rockets land on their tail" couldn't make profitable? If it comes to selling off a failure, Musk's reputation will be quite a dealbreaker. The days of whatever happens, if all else fails we can still sell to Yahoo are long gone. Perhaps China might be interested, for obvious reasons, but surely not after Twitter has gone down fighting, fading away into irrelevancy in the process.
If Elon holds the line on advertising and drops costs such that Twitter turns two billion in profit, they yeah the narrative in the business circles will be that Elon trimmed the fat and turned twitter into a viable property and someone with cash will buy it. I mean, Microsoft paid 8 billion for github! They bought Skype for 8.5 billion (probably like 12-20 billion these days), and THAT was after ebay bought skype for 2.6 billion (and none of the source code rights) in what was considered a vast overpay.
