Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg increased their net worth by $96.6 billion and $58.9 billion, respectively, thanks to rising share prices on the Nasdaq

  • meat_popsicle@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    They don’t need to sell to realize gains - they take out loans against the stock value from banks for almost no interest. If they choose to, they could get large amounts of that paper gain in liquid cash through just a handful of steps.

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      1 year ago

      they take out loans against the stock value from banks for almost no interest. If they choose to,

      Those days are coming to an end though…