This Mastodon thread was particularly enlightening on Musk’s love affair with the “X” brand.
John Bull (@[email protected])

To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal. And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist. Here's how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology

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The same person’s thread on emo totaling his McLaren while trying to impress Thiel is also pretty damn funny.
That’s incredible history and is so unsurprising with what we now know about Musk. Thanks for sharing.