X, the social media website previously referred to as Twitter that Elon Musk purchased in October 2022 for $44 billion, is now value $9.4 billion, in accordance with new estimates from Constancy.
Constancy marked down the worth of X by almost 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 value $5.5 million as of July 31. The Blue Chip fund invests in established corporations and goals for long-term development.
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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 value 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 and marketing companies plan to chop down advert spending on X subsequent 12 months, the largest withdrawal from any main social media platform. X additionally had the bottom general percentages of entrepreneurs who thought adverts on the platform had been reliable and revolutionary in comparison with Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok.
In October 2023, Apple, IBM, and Disney pulled adverts from X after an antisemitic submit from Musk. They had been the eleventh, fifth, and eighth-largest advertisers on X.
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