X, the social media web site previously generally known as Twitter that Elon Musk purchased in October 2022 for $44 billion, is now price $9.4 billion, in keeping with new estimates from Constancy.
Constancy marked down the worth of X by practically 80% (precisely 78.7%) in its Blue Chip Progress Fund annual report, filed Saturday. The submitting confirmed that Constancy’s preliminary funding of $19.66 million in X simply earlier than Musk took over was price $5.5 million as of July 31. The Blue Chip fund invests in established firms and goals for long-term progress.
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This is not the primary valuation lower X has acquired from Constancy.
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In December, Constancy disclosed that X was price 71.5% lower than when Musk acquired it, at a valuation of $12.5 billion. In October 2023, Constancy valued X at $19 billion.
A September 2024 media reactions report from analytics firm Kantar confirmed that over one in 4 (26%) advertising corporations plan to chop down advert spending on X subsequent yr, the most important withdrawal from any main social media platform. X additionally had the bottom total percentages of entrepreneurs who thought advertisements on the platform had been reliable and progressive in comparison with Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
In October 2023, Apple, IBM, and Disney pulled advertisements from X after an antisemitic put up from Musk. They had been the eleventh, fifth, and eighth-largest advertisers on X.
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