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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Musk defends jobs bloodbath at Twitter after culling four out of every five workers

Elon Musk defended the bloodletting at Twitter as necessary to save a company he put in danger. (Credit: Rafael Henrique—SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)

Twitter’s gonzo bloodletting is starting to pay off for Elon Musk, who claims the financially troubled company was just 120 days away from bankruptcy.

Thanks to a loss of advertising revenue in part due to uncertainty around the change in owner, together with $1.5 billion in annual interest payments on the debt he added from the takeover, Musk said the company only had enough cash to survive for four more months when he took over in October.

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