He founded X.com which became PayPal. No one buys a domain back 2 decades later for no reason, unless you’re a manchild who’s been having wet dreams about it and can’t let that stupid name go
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That’s funny because part of the reason Musk wanted to turn Twitter to X was because he’s been squatting on the domain since the late 90s
Nah, he bought it from Paypal in 2017.
He founded X.com which became PayPal. No one buys a domain back 2 decades later for no reason, unless you’re a manchild who’s been having wet dreams about it and can’t let that stupid name go
x.com merged with Paypal. He tried to hamstring Paypal, was removed, then x.com died as people preferred the Paypal brand.
I wonder if he knows about the game Xcom
That sectoid’s shit eating grin