Take a train or Ride a train You can "ride" a train, or you can "take" a train. What's the difference?
You use "ride" when you want to talk about the experience of riding, or when you want to describe something that happened while you were riding the train:
🔹I love riding the train in the middle of the day when it's not crowded. 🔹I was riding the train, and this guy next to me started telling me a story about how he had just gotten out of prison. 🔹As I was riding the train home, I realized that I'd left my keys in the closet at work.
You use "take" when you want to talk about how you get somewhere:
🔹Just take the #3 train to 72nd Street and I'll meet you there. 🔹Do you think it'll be faster to take the train or try to catch a bus?
Take a train or Ride a train You can "ride" a train, or you can "take" a train. What's the difference?
You use "ride" when you want to talk about the experience of riding, or when you want to describe something that happened while you were riding the train:
🔹I love riding the train in the middle of the day when it's not crowded. 🔹I was riding the train, and this guy next to me started telling me a story about how he had just gotten out of prison. 🔹As I was riding the train home, I realized that I'd left my keys in the closet at work.
You use "take" when you want to talk about how you get somewhere:
🔹Just take the #3 train to 72nd Street and I'll meet you there. 🔹Do you think it'll be faster to take the train or try to catch a bus?
Telegram hopes to raise $1bn with a convertible bond private placement
The super secure UAE-based Telegram messenger service, developed by Russian-born software icon Pavel Durov, is looking to raise $1bn through a bond placement to a limited number of investors from Russia, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, the Kommersant daily reported citing unnamed sources on February 18, 2021.The issue reportedly comprises exchange bonds that could be converted into equity in the messaging service that is currently 100% owned by Durov and his brother Nikolai.Kommersant reports that the price of the conversion would be at a 10% discount to a potential IPO should it happen within five years.The minimum bond placement is said to be set at $50mn, but could be lowered to $10mn. Five-year bonds could carry an annual coupon of 7-8%.
For some time, Mr. Durov and a few dozen staffers had no fixed headquarters, but rather traveled the world, setting up shop in one city after another, he told the Journal in 2016. The company now has its operational base in Dubai, though it says it doesn’t keep servers there.Mr. Durov maintains a yearslong friendship from his VK days with actor and tech investor Jared Leto, with whom he shares an ascetic lifestyle that eschews meat and alcohol.
