If Elon holds the line on advertising and drops costs such that Twitter turns two billion in profit, they yeah the narrative in the business circles will be that Elon trimmed the fat and turned twitter into a viable property and someone with cash will buy it. I mean, Microsoft paid 8 billion for github! They bought Skype for 8.5 billion (probably like 12-20 billion these days), and THAT was after ebay bought skype for 2.6 billion (and none of the source code rights) in what was considered a vast overpay.