Who is the current owner of X?

Elon Musk is the majority owner of X Corp. and its parent company, X Holdings. However, others own shares in X. Larger investors include Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudia Arabia, who rolled over a $1.89 billion stake that was owned prior to Musk's takeover. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison also owns a considerable stake, as does Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey. In addition, X's employees own shares of the business. According to several reports, employees have been offered the opportunity to purchase shares in the business and have also been granted restricted stock units (RSUs) in two separate rounds.

No, Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) is a main competitor of X and doesn't own any significant stake in the business. Since X is a private company, we don't know whether Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg or any other key Meta leaders own shares of X for sure, but Meta itself isn't a shareholder. In fact, after Musk's takeover of the company, Meta started working on its competing platform, Threads, in late 2022. Its platform was released in July 2023.

Who owns the X website?

X, formerly Twitter, is the main business of X Corp., which was established by Elon Musk shortly after acquiring Twitter. X Corp. is a subsidiary of parent company X Holdings, which owns no other major assets as of early 2024. However, Elon Musk has founded several other businesses that could ultimately be part of the "X" family.

Who Owns X (Formerly Twitter)?

By Matthew Frankel, CFP – Updated Jan 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM EST | Fact-checked by Parker Hicks

Key Points

Elon Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion and renamed it X, now owned by X Holdings.
X’s major shareholders include Elon Musk, Saudi Prince Alwaleed, and other private investors.
Invest indirectly in X through third-party marketplaces or funds like Ark Venture Fund.

Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, was a publicly traded company until late 2022. While the company was taken private by billionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk for $44 billion, the question of who owns X has a more complicated answer since Musk had several investors involved in the deal.

In this article, we'll discuss the current ownership structure of X and other important governance information you need to know.

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Who is the owner of X?

Until October 2022, X (then known as Twitter) was a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TWTR. It was taken private by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk toward the end of that month, and its name was subsequently changed to X in March 2023.

(Note: X.com was an online bank co-founded by Musk during the dot-com boom in the late 1990s. Musk reacquired the domain X.com from PayPal (PYPL +0.52%) in 2017.)

Technically speaking, Musk created a parent company (X Holdings) that is the owner of X Corp. He also has registered a company known as X.AI, which focuses on artificial intelligence (AI), and that could explain the need for the parent-subsidiary structure.

How Musk acquired Twitter

In early 2022, Musk -- a vocal critic of speech restrictions on Twitter -- began accumulating shares of the social media company. By April 2022, Musk had become the largest shareholder.

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Just a few weeks later, Musk made an unsolicited $44 billion offer to buy the company, which Twitter's board of directors initially rejected but later decided was in the best interests of Twitter shareholders.

In October 2022, Musk officially acquired Twitter for $44 billion.

Musk sold about $15 billion of his Tesla stock to fund the purchase and secured $13 billion in financing from several banks. He also raised capital from a few outside investors and convinced some of Twitter's largest public shareholders to roll their shares into the new private company.

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Who are the largest shareholders?

It's important to realize that Musk isn't the only owner of X. For one thing, since going private, X has offered stock to employees and has granted restricted stock units (RSUs), as well. So, there are a lot of "owners." But we'll focus on those who own a substantial amount of X shares.

At the time of Musk's takeover of the company, he had several other investors who received equity stakes. According to a 2024 court filing, there were almost 100 other investors who helped take the company private.

After Musk, the largest shareholder of X is Kingdom Holding Company, controlled by Saudi prince and billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal, who rolled over $1.89 billion in former Twitter shares at the time of the deal.

Other notable investors include:

Oracle (ORCL -3.98%) co-founder Larry Ellison.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance (BNB +0.14%), which confirmed a $500 million investment.
Venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.
Sovereign wealth fund Qatar Holding.
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey retained a $1 billion stake in the social media platform after Musk took Twitter private.
Fidelity invested $300 million at the time of the acquisition.

As of 2025, there haven't been any new updates, and because X is now private, the company isn't required to release an updated list.

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Who is on the board of directors for X?

As a publicly traded company, X (then Twitter) had a board of directors with nine members, including then-CEO Parag Agrawal.

Immediately following Musk's takeover of X in Oct. 2022, he dissolved the company's board of directors and fired its key leaders, appointed himself CEO, and became the company's sole director. However, at the time, Musk stated on the platform that the dissolution of the board "is just temporary."

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As of January 2025, Linda Yaccarino, a former NBCUniversal executive, is the CEO of X Corp. Musk serves as chief technology officer (CTO) and still has the executive chairman role. No further information has been released about a new board of directors. As far as we know, Elon Musk is still the only director.

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Matt Frankel, CFP®, is a contributing Motley Fool stock market analyst specializing in the real estate and financial sectors. Prior to The Motley Fool, Matt taught high school and college mathematics. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of South Carolina, a master’s degree in mathematics from Nova Southeastern University, and a graduate certificate in financial planning from Florida State University. He won a SABEW award for coverage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. He is also regularly interviewed by Cheddar, Globe St, The National Desk, and other TV networks and publications for his real estate, financial, stock market, and investing expertise.

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