Is Elon Musk Moving the Goalposts for His Twitter Deal?

When Elon Musk offered to take Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) private, he pledged $21 billion of his personal wealth to the deal. The Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO already sold about $8 billion of his stock in the electric vehicle company, so he will most certainly have some skin in the game. But Musk is also looking for private equity firms to contribute some cash to the deal, shrinking his own cash investment and potential ownership stake even further.

What does he really want from this controversial deal?

Let's start with the original ownership structure of the proposed Twitter buyout:

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