On Thursday, billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced he had made an offer to buy Twitter for $43 billion.

Musk revealed his interest in purchasing Twitter earlier in the day by tweeting a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission stating the acquisition depended on the "completion of anticipated financing."

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If Musk were to use Tesla shares, Twitter could still reject his offer on the grounds that the financing he had secured was not reliable, said Kevin Kaiser,

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Elon Musk is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX and Product Architect of Tesla

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Net Worth Around $282 billion

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Elon Musk Created a video game at the age of 12 and later sold it for $500

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