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#RichDick #JaredKushner wants to ruin our #games
The deal is the "largest leveraged buyout on record," according to Bloomberg, and includes $20 billion in #debt
#55billion #acquired #ElectronicArts #game #news #sold #videogame #SilverLakePartners #SaudiArabia #PIF #AffinityPartners #EA #Trump #uspol #intpol #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #layoffs #MassEffect
https://means.tv/programs/mmn-daily_100325?category_id=34135

Video gamer #ElectronicArts to be acquired for $52.5B in #PrivateEquity buyout

#SilverLakePartners, #SaudiArabia’s sovereign wealth fund #PIF, & #AffinityPartners will pay #EA’s stockholders $210 per share. The companies value the deal at ~$55B, including debt. Affinity Partners is run by #Trump son-in-law, #JaredKushner.

After being taken private, formerly public companies typically often undergo extensive cost-cutting including #layoffs.

#VideoGames #tech #business
https://apnews.com/article/ea-electronic-arts-video-game-silver-lake-pif-d17dc7dd3412a990d2c0a6758aaa6900?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-29-Electronic+Arts

#JaredKushner’s private #equity firm & a group of large investors are in talks to buy out the #VideoGame company #ElectronicArts in what could be one of the largest such deals ever, acc/to 2 people briefed on the discussion.

Kushner’s firm, #AffinityPartners, along with other investors including the #SaudiSovereignWealthFund [#PIF] & #SilverLakePartners are in talks to take the publicly traded company #private.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/business/electronic-arts-buyout-jared-kushner.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

This is never easy to do. When the full-ish story comes out I feel like we can all be better judges of whether or not we stay using WordPress or host with WPE anymore.

Time will tell. Patience is needed on all of our parts.

#MattvsWPE #WordPress #WPEngine #SilverLakePartners