The Twitter investors Elon Musk hopes to keep may not want to stay

Musk, in the time since the initial proposal, made his first public comments Thursday about the big deal expressing doubt if the bid will ultimately go through.

Elon Musk said Thursday -- and later backed it up with a tweet -- that he wants to retain as many of Twitter Inc.’s shareholders as possible if he’s successful in his bid to take the social-media network private. First, he might have to persuade them to accept his offer. 
 

“I should also say the intent is to retain as many shareholders as is allowed by the law in a private company, which I think is around 2,000 or so,” Musk said at a TED event in Vancouver. “We’ll try to bring along as many shareholders as we’re allowed to.”

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