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Re:Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) by andygcook on Sunday April 05, 2020 @10:24AM (#22785693)
IIRC from reading the book PayPal Wars, Elon wanted to switch PayPal over to Windows because he saw it as the future. At the time, PayPal was on Unix. Max Levchin and the other main programmers didn’t want to switch. The disagreement on platform eventually came to a head and Elon was replaced by the board with Peter Thiel.

If you haven’t read PayPal Wars, it’s a great book.

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Re:Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) by noneckbeard on Sunday April 05, 2020 @10:36AM (#22785768)
Agreed. I think it was also a power struggle over which engineering team would be in control moving forward. Musk’s X.com was built on windows and he wanted everyone to switch over on the merge.
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Re:Mistakes That Kill Startups (2006) by statictype on Sunday April 05, 2020 @10:34AM (#22785759)
Further, a lot of Tesla's internal systems are apparently Windows, mainly because Musk likes it, apparently?
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