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100%. They've announced the plans for SpaceX to have an IPO, this will basically eliminate all of his losses even if they just shut down xAI immediately following acquisition (which they won't do just yet, because people are still bag holding AI investments.)
This guy might be a dumb fuck, but he's the smartest dumb fuck in the billionaire game.
Edit: Some of his capital investors might have told him that they want out of xAI because they see where the wind is blowing. This gets them out with profit if they pull it off fast enough.
This (SpaceX IPO) is going to be a massive rug pull, for the 2nd round of public traders and I bet that he's got structure in place to ensure that even after selling billions of dollars of shares he still holds 51% or some shit, or that his annual compensation is $0+1% of the company.
10 years ago I would have bought into a SpaceX IPO. Not today.
I don't think he is dumb. He is without decency though. He doesn't care who he hurts and I have no doubt he will hurt a lot of people in the future.