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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To expand, one of his early businesses was X.com which was a payment processor and sold to paypal and eventually shutdown. He bought the domain again back in 2017 and it now redirects to twitter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He’s also been wanting to name something X for a while. When Ford wouldn’t let him name the Model 3 the Model X (so his cars would spell SEX) he must have sat on his laurels until he had a brain aneurysm big enough to make him think it’s a good idea to dump the Twitter brand for a math problem.

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

Isn't it that he wanted model E but that's the one Ford wouldn't allow? Because there is a Tesla model X. He wanted to spell SEXY but instead he now has S3XY.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ah yea, that’s right. I misremembered.