There’s a sudden squall of one thing off-smelling coming from Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s deliberate $44 billion Twitter deal. The prolific tweeter has already pushed the bounds of verbal agreements surrounding the Twitter buyout, however now {that a} new spherical of funding has come down the pike, some are questioning simply how stable the financing for the deal actually is.

In Securities and Exchange Commission documents filed Wednesday, Musk’s Twitter bid acquired new funding to the tune of $7 billion from a number of buyers, together with massive investments from a category of the Tesla founder’s massive tech/monetary “Super Friends.” This features a $1 billion pledge from Oracle founder and Tesla stakeholder Larry Ellison, plus thousands and thousands extra from Sequoia Capital Fund, VyCapital, in addition to smaller drops from the likes of crypto trade platform Binance.

Tech bros are getting in on the sport as effectively. Notorious massive tech bankroller Ben Horowitz mentioned his enterprise capital agency a16z is placing $400 million into the deal, saying in a tweet “Elon is the one person we know and perhaps the only person in the world who has the courage, brilliance, and skills to fix all of these and build the public square that we all hoped for and deserve.”

All this cash may appear to be a shot within the arm for the deal, however the transfer additionally cuts prior commitments from Morgan Stanley in half, from $12.5 billion to $6.25 billion in margin loans in opposition to Tesla inventory, as identified by Axios. Most of the contributions are comparatively small cash in comparison with the overall deal. The SEC filings additionally say that Musk is rising money and fairness funding for the deal from $21 billion to $27.5 billion.

Shares haven’t elevated as much as Musk’s $54.20 asking worth both, although they’ve narrowed to the closest hole because the Tesla CEO introduced his deal in April, in response to Bloomberg.

Some analysts have a look at this new funding as a sensible transfer that reveals there’s a stronger backing for the deal throughout a number of sectors, however Axios wrote that there’s nonetheless a query of the place Musk’s $20 billion of fairness goes to return from, particularly as Musk mentioned he gained’t money out any extra of the billions of {dollars} he has holed up in Tesla shares after he offered $8.4 billion value of shares final week. Axios additionally famous that if the deal goes by means of, Musk could possibly be billions of dollars in debt and worker inventory compensation that can should be paid off with Twitter income. Twitter solely made roughly $513 million in profit this year.

Musk might want to give you some actually ingenious methods to make Twitter rather more worthwhile to finance this rope he’s tying round his personal leg. So far, the one concept he’s proven publicly is charging business and authorities customers to tweet, so… no, not revolutionary in any respect.

Not to say, the brand new Twitter proprietor is now expected to take over as CEO of the corporate, unnamed sources advised CNBC, taking up from present CEO Parag Agrawal. In a earlier tweet mentioning Agrawal’s job prospect, he appeared fairly philosophical about the potential of his ouster.

And Twitter staffers are apparently feeling the strain as effectively. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that workers got a form of backhanded pep discuss, the place many requested why they need to even create something new for the app if their new proprietor plans to make main adjustments to the platform, probably resulting in a mass exodus of workers or a giant spherical of layoffs. In interviews on the Met Gala Monday, Musk appeared very nonchalant about the concept that his new potential workers have a look at him the identical means a rat does a rushing subway prepare.

All this isn’t to say inventory house owners aren’t attempting to placed on a strained smile and suck as much as the brand new potential proprietor (or maybe make veiled retorts behind gritted enamel). Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal pledged round $1.9 billion to Musks takeover by promising to purchase 35 million shares within the firm. The prince tweeted at Musk yesterday “I believe you will be an excellent leader for @Twitter to propel & maximize its great potential.”

The tweet was in the identical thread because the Saudi prince saying he thought the corporate can be value greater than Musk’s asking worth per share. Musk initially retorted by mentioning Saudi Arabia’s harsh crackdowns on free speech, implying that Twitter ought to be beholden to Saudi cash.