Ross Johnson, the CEO of RJR Nabisco, who planned to buy out the rest of the Nabisco shareholders. Perhaps members of the public are just being conspiratorial, but to them, the dots easily connect.Įlon preparing to buy out Twitter shareholders /JtMhUsFrW2īarbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco is a 1989 book about the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco, written by investigative journalists Bryan Burrough and John Helyar.Įlon is tweeting about his Twitter takeover.īarbarians at the Gate is a 1989 book (and 1993 movie) about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco by F. securities regulators that the money would come from Morgan Stanley and other banks, some of it secured by his huge stake in the electric car maker,” the Associated Press reported Thursday. … The Tesla CEO said Thursday in documents filed with U.S. “Elon Musk says he has lined up $46.5 billion in financing to buy Twitter, putting pressure on the company’s board to negotiate a deal. Ross Johnson.Īccording to Investopedia, a leveraged buyout refers to “the acquisition of another company using a significant amount of borrowed money (bonds or loans) to meet the cost of acquisition.”

It’s a non-fiction book that tells the story of the attempted “leveraged buyout of the RJR Nabisco Corporation for $25 billion” in 1988 by then-Nabisco CEO F. Returning to Musk’s initial tweet, it happens to be the title of a a 1989 book titled “Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco.” (from making fun of Gates for shorting Tesla while claiming to support climate change action) Musk followed up on that with a pair of tweets Sunday morning, with a strategic pause of nearly three hours between the first and second offering - this ultimately proving to be a reference to his recent spat with Bill Gates:

Barbarians at the gate