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Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism::Tesla founder threatens to take action against media watchdog ‘the split second court opens on Monday’

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Did he actually help start any of those companies? I thought he basically bought his way into all but one of them, and the one he was part of he got kicked out of. But I may be remembering that wrong.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You're not wrong. Musk fanboys are goofy in the head too.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're thinking of PayPal, I think you are at least partially wrong on that: he didn't start that one either but another company that was not that successful... I want to say he bought the more successful company and kept that name, merging his into it, and tried to do a lot of his own software engineering on it that was so bad they had to rip all of it out when they ousted him for how badly he was managing the company.

This could be misremembered as well though, but I don't think he actually has a single successful company he can legitimately claim the title of "founder" of without having bought the rights to call himself that when he bought the company.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think he actually founded SpaceX.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I think you may be right on that one