other popular destinations<\/a>, including Allegiant Stadium and Fremont Street.<\/p>\nMore Gaming Ties<\/h2>\n
There are other gaming industry ties in the Musk\/Twitter equation. Twitter director Egon Durban, who along with the rest of the board initially rejected Musk\u2019s takeover proposal, is involved with the wagering business.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s chairman of the board of Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:EDR), the parent company of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Endeavor also acquired the OpenBet sports platform from the company, then known as Scientific Games, for $1.2 billion in September 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\nDurban is the co-chief executive officer of Silver Lake. That investment firm holds a stake in Fanatics, which has long been rumored to be an eventual player in the sports betting industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Private equity firm Apollo Global Management (NYSE:APO), which operates the Venetian integrated resort on the Las Vegas Strip, is rumored to be in talks to contribute financing for Elon Musk\u2019s $44 billion takeover of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR). Musk\u2019s bid for the social media company is eliciting baseless, unfounded fears of threats to democracy on the left, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":212955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33810,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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