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X, the moonshot factory
Musk wanted to rebrand PayPal as X. His obsession goes back a long, long way.
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Somehow the naming obsession reminds me of the antics of self-promoter (and fraud) Kim Schmitz, who targeted being "Dot Com" or "Mega".
https://www.wired.com/2012/01/kim-dotcom/
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True. Maybe it was Larry who was doing the nose thumbing to start with.
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