He didn’t start PayPal. It was founded by Pieter Thiel, another billionaire christofascist, and four other guys and non of them are called Elon Musk. X.com was bought by PayPal.
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4realz@lemmy.world 9 months agoI understand where you’re coming from, but business is brutal and things like this happen in that world. PayPal (formely X .com) was also started by Elon, I don’t think he “scammed/tricked” anyone on that. And he has made billions for his investors over the years. I mean Tesla is worth over $600 billion, due to the marketing genius that is Elon.
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 9 months ago
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s wild how little this dude knows about Elon musk while singing his praises to the heavens, but I guess those two things go hand in hand.
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 9 months ago
Muskrats are consistently the least informed people in the room when it to Elon. It’d be a lot funnier if it weren’t so damn simple to find the actual facts about him. There’s really no excusing their ignorance. It’s just willful.
FMT99@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“Oh yeah he didn’t actually do that… Still, what a genius amirite?”
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Man, learn something about someone before you go worshipping someone.
X was bought by paypal, but was far from “integral.” It was just its largest competitor for Confinidy at the time because Musk was washing it in money he made from a previous venture. Musk was a actually briefly the CEO of PayPal, but his decisions were so poor that he was forced out.. He still retained enough shares of paypal to hit it big time, which is when he poured all hia money into a long shot bet called Tesla, which he used goverment funds and seed capitol from his rich friends to keep alive until it turned an actual profit a decade later.
Dude grew up with emerald mine money, then just kept taking outlandish risks because he had an emerald mine to keep his ass housed and fed, and yeah, eventually hit it big. Super duper.
Turns out that if you have a wealthy life always secured at hands, you too could gamble big and make even more money. Thats how capitalism is deisgned to work. Capital makes more capital.
The fact that you’re suckered in bu the worlds best gambler play a game that had no negative stakes for him is sad as fuck man. Be proud of someone who overcame actual adversity for fucks sake
4realz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I’ll have to do some more research on Elon then.
cocobean@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Don’t forget blatant market manipulation. Pump&dumps on Bitcoin, doge coin, TWTR, and TSLA…