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What's the obsesion of Musk with the X? X (twitter) SpaceX, xAI...

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He wanted to rename PayPal to X back in the day. The simple answer is that he thinks it’s cool.

and he owned the very expensive domain name

He sold it (alongside the company), then bought it back in 2017

The developer documentation of Paypal (to develop payment connectors to Paypal) used to be on x.com. Confused me as a university student.

It's a question, I suppose. Let's feed it in and see what happens. Grok in "fun mode":

    <enormous response full of typical AI speak elided>

Let's whittle that output down a bit with bullshitremover:

    Elon loves X. His first big thing was X.com. SpaceX has X for space.
    Tesla Model X is part of the S3XY lineup. He even named his kid X.
    Now Twitter is X. His AI company is xAI. X is Elon's thing - branding,
    exploration, rebellion. Love it or hate it, can't ignore it.

Hmm. Not sure anything of value has been learned.

He's had it for a while — he founded another company 20 years ago, x.com, which merged into PayPal. Following that, he wanted to rebrand PayPal into x.com, and was eventually fired for it

For that exact desire?

Partially. He basically kept ignoring the board and lying to the board -- and that was one such case.

Another example was he decided that all of PayPal needed to be Windows computers so every engineer has to stop what they were doing and convert. Board said stop, he said okay, then continued.

Not exclusively — I've seen several reasons quoted, including the rebrand, Musk's shift from Unix to Windows, and his leadership style.

What’s the obsession of Apple with the i? iPhone, iMac, iPad… the answer is simple - there is no obsession, it’s just marketing.

Reportedly, it originally stood for internet/individual/innovation/…

He appreciates the branding advantage of owning a letter of the alphabet. So he picked one and bought it.

I doubt x is more recognizable than twitter.

haha, did you JUST notice this? dont forget his kid's name, and the model x

X-Men

model S E X Y

Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE

It would be funny if he was doing this in his 20's but for a man in his 50s it's big fellowkids behavior.

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