The name Sam Bankman-Fried came up quite a lot in Twitter v. Musk. I wonder if he ended up with a stake in the acquisition deal. If SBF was indeed a sizable backer of the Twitter buyout, this more than anything could take Twitter out at the knees.
CZ invested $500 million.
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Elon was the one who passed on them.