Donald Trump is helping Twitter enormously but the stock market seems to discount any value to his incessant tweets unless it is of course about any OTHER company he tweets about. This to me just doesn’t make any sense so I did some research about the potential sale of Twitter. Twitter last year was reputed to be on the block but no buyers materialized.
Who is going to buy Twitter? That’s the $18 billion question Silicon Valley has been asking itself for over a year since it became apparent Twitter wasn’t growing the way investors once hoped. In that time, the list of suggested suitors has grown steadily: Google is always a popular option, and others like News Corp, Silver Lake, activist Carl Icahn and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen have been tossed around, too. Last week, well-known Twitter investors Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO who owns the Los Angeles Clippers, and Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal joined the list, a combination that was really interesting since together they own roughly 9 percent of the company. And it shouldn’t come as a surprise if hedge funds or private equity firms start sniffing around, too. Which got us thinking: Who are the other key players with either the influence or ownership necessary to make or break a potential Twitter deal? The list, it turns out, isn’t long.
Source: Who owns Twitter? A look at the players who could make or break a deal. – Recode