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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I recall correctly, he had the x.com domain and tried to rebrand PayPal to X. The board went, "are you a fucking idiot?" and replace him with Peter Thiel.

He's been trying to call stuff "X" since he was an edgy teenager. He just never had the good sense to grow out of it, and he fell ass backward into enough money that we all get to watch him go all "Star Wars kid" over and over again in public.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOL @ Star Wars kid comment. Gave me a good chuckle. But, that’s not fair to the real Star Wars kid, my brother was just enjoying being him, living his best life! You do him dirty by debasing him to Musk’s level 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's true, the real star wars kid is way healthier than this guy. Billionaire is a kind of disease.