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by andygcook 2265 days ago
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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noneckbeard 2265 days ago
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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statictype 2265 days ago
Further, a lot of Tesla's internal systems are apparently Windows, mainly because Musk likes it, apparently?
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