And (from a different article): 'The letter “X” has been on just about everything Musk has touched for the last two-plus decades. X.com was the original name for Paypal; it’s in his SpaceX company name; it’s in the name for the Tesla SUV; it anchors X.Ai and his kid X Æ A-12; and he has said he wants to turn Twitter into “X, the everything app.” Now he’s finally doing something with the X.com domain he bought back from Paypal in 2017.'
ETA: My (middle) daughter put it best: It's like he's a 12 year old who thinks something is ~really cool~! Except he's got lots of money and no one to tell him No. Is he actively trying to destroy democracy or is he just a billionaire narcissist? Who knows! Either way, the result is the same.
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LOL. What marketing? It's alllll him: Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
And (from a different article): 'The letter “X” has been on just about everything Musk has touched for the last two-plus decades. X.com was the original name for Paypal; it’s in his SpaceX company name; it’s in the name for the Tesla SUV; it anchors X.Ai and his kid X Æ A-12; and he has said he wants to turn Twitter into “X, the everything app.” Now he’s finally doing something with the X.com domain he bought back from Paypal in 2017.'
ETA: My (middle) daughter put it best: It's like he's a 12 year old who thinks something is ~really cool~! Except he's got lots of money and no one to tell him No. Is he actively trying to destroy democracy or is he just a billionaire narcissist? Who knows! Either way, the result is the same.