Last October, Tesla-doubting investors were out in force short selling shares in anticipation that Elon Musk would sell a large chunk of stock of his own to fund his purchase of Twitter. At the time, many suspected the billionaire had maxed out the amount of money Tesla would allow him to borrow using a pledge of his shares as security.
Little did they know he had another source to raise money that could potentially be used to fund his $44 billion deal.
