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I wouldn't say PayPal is nothing, although lot of people hate it, I always prefer paying with it than giving my credit card number to a new merchant. What's th

I wouldn't say PayPal is nothing, although lot of people hate it, I always prefer paying with it than giving my credit card number to a new merchant. What's the most important for me is that Elon showed people that clean great electric cars are possible (and China already has a higher growth rate in electric cars than Tesla). I'm literally sick of the toxic air pollution that cars make, which is a problem I didn't have when I was younger.

m0zg 8y ago
It's not "nothing". I only listed the "impossible" things he's done or is in the advanced stages of doing.
wpietri 8y ago
What exactly did Musk do at PayPal? He didn't start it. He was CEO for a hot minute, but that's about it. From what I can tell, his major initiative during his short CEO stint was to try to shift them from a Unix infrastructure to Windows, for which they fired him. I have no idea why people give him credit for it.
- acover 8y ago
  Elon founded x.com which merged with confinity. The combined company was renamed PayPal [0]. Doesn't that mean he co-founded PayPal? [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
  - wpietri 8y ago
    No. PayPal, the money transfer service, was created before the merger. X.com was an online bank. PayPal clearly existed by October 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19991013140707/http://paypal.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/19991013140707/http://paypal.com... Your web page shows the merger was in March 2000. Musk was pushed out by October 2000.
- xiphias2 8y ago
  I don't think Peter Thiel would have given so much shares to Elon if he didn't think about X.com as a serious competitor. Peter still looks up to Elon for a reason. At the same time Elon is making huge mistakes and huge risks as well (and also has borderline lies that sometimes step over the border), so I'm not saying he's perfect, just the best we have right now.
  - wpietri 8y ago
    That avoids the question. What did he do at PayPal? As far as I can tell he deserves no credit for his success.

m0zg 8y ago

It's not "nothing". I only listed the "impossible" things he's done or is in the advanced stages of doing.

wpietri 8y ago

What exactly did Musk do at PayPal? He didn't start it. He was CEO for a hot minute, but that's about it. From what I can tell, his major initiative during his short CEO stint was to try to shift them from a Unix infrastructure to Windows, for which they fired him. I have no idea why people give him credit for it.

acover 8y ago
Elon founded x.com which merged with confinity. The combined company was renamed PayPal [0]. Doesn't that mean he co-founded PayPal? [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
- wpietri 8y ago
  No. PayPal, the money transfer service, was created before the merger. X.com was an online bank. PayPal clearly existed by October 1999: https://web.archive.org/web/19991013140707/http://paypal.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/19991013140707/http://paypal.com... Your web page shows the merger was in March 2000. Musk was pushed out by October 2000.
xiphias2 8y ago
I don't think Peter Thiel would have given so much shares to Elon if he didn't think about X.com as a serious competitor. Peter still looks up to Elon for a reason. At the same time Elon is making huge mistakes and huge risks as well (and also has borderline lies that sometimes step over the border), so I'm not saying he's perfect, just the best we have right now.
- wpietri 8y ago
  That avoids the question. What did he do at PayPal? As far as I can tell he deserves no credit for his success.