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There Was An Attempt

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Elon Musk has tried to re-brand PayPal as "X" years ago and was shot down due to focus groups stating it reminded them of adult websites.

Thiel and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin plotted a coup against Musk while he was on his first vacation in years. The board fired Musk as CEO in September 2000 and replaced him with Thiel. Thiel formally changed the name of the combined company to PayPal in 2001.

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[–] b000urns@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not idiots apparently. Still dislike PayPal however

[–] objectionist@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

paypal sucks, but at least it sucks with dignity!

[–] Junkers_Klunker@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jokes aside, no.

No it is not.

I dunno I'd rather a monocle be involved somewhere

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Same. Registered for an account once and tried to pay on several sites and it just failed becaused the account was too new ( probably ).

Eventually I transferred the funds to steam and deleted the account. What a feckin pile of rubbish.

[–] runblack@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

At least it supports 2FA with hardware keys. Something that seemingly no bank is able to support after years and years have passed...

[–] DragonTypeWyvern 17 points 1 year ago

Reminder that Musk became a mega millionaire by riding the .com bubble and scamming Compaq.

This is what made him a billionaire, Peter Thiel forcing him out of leadership.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can Elongated Muskrat just rename himself to X at this point?

[–] GombeenSysadmin@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s a GREAT Twitter thread explaining everything that went on with this. Although I think you need an account there these days to read it all.

[–] Odo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] GombeenSysadmin@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Excellent, thanks for that

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

When you have billion dollars I doubt he cares what imUS regulars really think. Also, we , regulars keep complaining no matter what