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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by FireBeyond on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:56AM (#31154794)
You mean, before Tesla? Like PayPal?

Musk got rich off of PayPal. But lets be clear, he "lead" it for less than four months before being fired as the CEO for gross incompetence.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by panick21_ on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:59AM (#31155806)
Same old bad take I see.

He was fired because he wanted to keep it and had a very aggressive growth plan.

The other people just wanted to cash out.

He was not fired about incompetence, he was fired because of disagreements about strategy.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by FireBeyond on Monday April 25, 2022 @12:38PM (#31157306)
Seems like Elon cashed out quite nicely, and meanwhile PayPal grew quite aggressively.

So maybe it was more about Elon.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by panick21_ on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:03PM (#31170017)
PayPal was sold to Ebay and was under different managers after.

And if you invest your money into Musk companies you would now be far, far, far, far richer then anything you would have invested into any of the other PayPal founders companies (or Ebay or PayPal).

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