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@anndylian Powerful

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@anndylian Market is weak

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@anndylian Super long post.

[Anndy Lian @anndylian]

Can Elon Musk Use The Same Mark Cuban Playbook 🧵 👇

I had dinner with some Asian VCs. They talked about the possibility of Elon using the same stunt as Mark.

I told them it is not possible, but they insist it is possible. No need to argue with them. I put it on X to share with all. You decide.

Here are 20 pointers:

1/ Can an insider like Elon Musk short the market using locked-up shares?

2/ The short answer is no. Brokers can’t lend out locked shares to short sellers.

3/ But Wall Street has always found a back door through financial engineering.

4/ In 1999, Mark Cuban pulled off the ultimate hedge using this exact dilemma.

5/ He sold Broadcast to Yahoo! for $5.7 billion in stock.

6/ The catch? All of his Yahoo! shares were strictly locked up.

7/ He knew the dot-com bubble was going to burst and needed a way out.

8/ He couldn't sell or short Yahoo! directly without breaking SEC laws.

9/ So, Cuban found a massive loophole in the regulatory rulebook.

10/ He couldn't short Yahoo!, but he could short an internet index.
11/ As long as Yahoo! made up less than 5% of that index, it was legal.

12/ He spent millions shorting the index to hedge his downside risk.

13/ Once his lock-up expired, he executed his famous "Zero-Cost Collar."

14/ He bought put options to guarantee a floor price if the stock crashed.

15/ He sold call options to fund those puts, costing him $0 out of pocket.

16/ When the dot-com bubble burst, Yahoo! cratered, but Cuban was protected.

17/ Fast forward to today: Could Elon Musk run the exact same play?

18/ Not quite—modern SEC laws and corporate governance are way stricter.

19/ Tesla's strict anti-hedging policies explicitly ban insiders from buying puts.

20/ Today, Elon’s only legal move is "macro shorting" the broader Nasdaq index.

If I am Elon, I will do this:

The Clean Workaround: Macro Shorting

If Elon wanted to hedge against a broader market crash or an EV sector downturn while his shares were locked, he could legally short unrelated assets or macro indices (such as shorting the Nasdaq-100 or buying puts on the S&P 500).

Because his net worth is tied up in highly volatile equity, buying broad-market puts or shorting a macro index serves as a synthetic insurance policy. If the macro economy tanks, his tech stocks drop, but his index shorts offset the bleeding, exactly like Cuban’s initial index play.

[Anndy Lian @anndylian]

Have you read my new book about #web4?

I talked about Web4 in 2021, keynote speech in 2023 and lots of articles about my vision.

Still ranked #1 New Release and #11 in Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies on Amazon.

I want to speak to communities about the book. Ground up approach. If you want a session with me, ping me.

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Can you share your views too?

Asia faces ‘costly paradox’ over divergent #AI rules in US and EU (via @SCMPNews)

Anndy Lian: Consequently, these companies had to bear the burden of a “regulatory fragmentation tax” and a “costly paradox.

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andy is an awesome thoughtful human, well worth the investment

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congrats on the launch of your new book @anndylian

[Diana 🔶 @dianabinance]

What if Web3 wasn't the final destination?

Join me and @anndylian for an exclusive Pre-Read Conversation on #BinanceConnect.

His new book "Web4: The Age of Autonomous Intelligence" just launched. Before I read it, I want to hear directly from the author: why Web4, why now, and what we're all missing about the future of the internet.

Set reminder below 👇

https://t.co/vFtsvgLfr7 👈

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@anndylian @amazon 🙏

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@anndylian Will it crash further this weekend?

[Anndy Lian @anndylian]

The new #web4 book is “Top New Release” on @amazon.

Thanks to all for the support.

This is the time where #AI meets true decentralization. We will witness that.

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@anndylian 💪

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@anndylian Subbed

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@anndylian Do you think it will go lower?

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@anndylian I will get a copy.

[Anndy Lian @anndylian]

Web4: The Age of Autonomous Intelligence is live on Amazon.

Kindle version available now.

I will be keeping the price low ($1.99) as per Amazon’s range.

All proceeds of the book will be donated.

Thanks for the support.

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@anndylian @cz_binance Island?

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Why RWAs Are Just A Database Migration? Read👇