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A comment on "I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX" (advice for Twitter execs). Parent comment

Re:"I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX" (adv... by Alupis on Friday November 04, 2022 @08:57PM (#33476451)
Zip2 and X.com (later PayPal after a merger).

These two ventures are what propelled Musk to where he is today.

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Re:"I worked for Elon Musk in the early days of SpaceX" (adv... by jbreckmckye on Friday November 04, 2022 @09:22PM (#33476667)
Even according to Ashlee Vance's fawning biography the original Zip2 was a shambling mess that segfaulted constantly and had to be urgently rewritten from scratch.
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