D&D General Elon Musk Wants To Know 'How Much Is Hasbro?'

Following the richest man in the world's attack on Wizards of the Coast for two paragraphs in the 500-page celebration of D&D, The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons 1970-1977, Elon Musk--who bought Twitter not that long ago--wants to know how much D&D's owner Hasbro would cost.

After the public sharing on Twitter of Jason Tondro's (who wrote the book’s foreword) private Facebook posts, Musk replied "How much is Hasbro?"

Hasbro's estimated capitalization is currently $8.71 billion, with $3.95 billion of debt.

It was on 21st December 2017 when Musk similarly enquired "How much is it?" before proceeding to make a bid for Twitter. He later tried to back out of the deal, but was forced to buy the platform for $44 billion in June 2022. Current estimates by investment firm Fidelity put the platform at a value 80% less than when he bought it, with a worth of only about $9.4 billion.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Isn't he supposed to be setting up some sort of government "efficiency" agency right now?

He's the world's most exhausting person. Literally, every time I hear something new from him, I want to hear less from him.

Dear gods, I think I rather him running Hasbro than that, few people at risk.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Maybe he will pull a Crassus.

First Triumvirate burn!

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Yup. Hopefully WotC hurries up with all those past edition SRDs as well.

They should do that either way, but yeah I'd support that.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Remember when, while still not anything resembling a net positive to the world, rich people led interesting lives and did things others weren't able to?

When they didn't just publicly act like idiots day in and day out while burning their companies to the ground, secure in the fact that they had abused contracts to the point that there would be no consequences for doing so?

 

[Professor Murder]

On the short list of things that would get me to quit DnD.

 

[TravDoc42]

Dear gods, I think I rather him running Hasbro than that, few people at risk.

Absolutely.
I just think it's odd that he's supposed to be working so hard to "clean things up", and now he's spending his time fighting with a TTRPG company.

A very one-sided fight, I may add.

 

[Micah Sweet]

They should do that either way, but yeah I'd support that.

For my part, folk D&D forever should happen either way too.

 

[Parmandur]

How? They don't own their own stock, at least not 51% of it

Didn't work out for the last attempt by outside money to take over the company.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Absolutely.
I just think it's odd that he's supposed to be working so hard to "clean things up", and now he's spending his time fighting with a TTRPG company.

Well, see he's done with the cleanup.

He saw a social media network full of bots competing with actual content and set out to get rid of all the actual people producing the worthwhile content while adding a robot that just immediately went against the bias he tried to have built into it.

Now there's a nice, clear wasteland full of nothing but bots and his stans. Time to move on and fix something else by stuffing it with ideas that can only come from days of zero sleep and absolutely no chemical disenhancement.

 

[mamba]

He could waste my entire net worth every day for the rest of his life, and he’d still have more than enough money left to buy Hasbro.

yes, and I still do not care