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Yeah, a startup founder seeing a problem and having a clumsy, heavy handed, poorly thought out reaction is super refreshing. Hadn't been this refreshed since li
by ryguytilidie 8y ago
Yeah, a startup founder seeing a problem and having a clumsy, heavy handed, poorly thought out reaction is super refreshing. Hadn't been this refreshed since like, Friday.
- mygo 8y agoyou know he founded PayPal, right? Which sold to eBay for $1.5b His first company was acquired by Compaq for almost half a billion. He’s listed by Forbes as one of the top 25 most powerful people on earth. Tesla is a 15 year old company. I feel like “startup founder” should not the operating phrase here.
- zimpenfish 8y agoNot to diminish his achievements but... > you know he founded PayPal, right? Confinity (Levchin, Thiel, Nosek, no Musk) launched PayPal in late 1999. X.com (founded by Musk) merged with Confinity in March 2000. In no way can Musk be considered a "founder" of PayPal. > His first company was acquired by Compaq for almost half a billion. Zip2? $340M. Nowhere near half a billion and that was in 1999 at the height of the ridiculous tech bubble. The man's done a lot of stuff - there's no need to embellish them.