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by lightbendover 496 days ago
You may be referring to PayPal as one of those companies, but in case you’re not: Elon did not found Tesla.
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Fnoord 496 days ago
He didn't found PayPal either. He founded X.com, and they happened to merge with Confinity who owned the brand PayPal. Confinity existed before X.com (and had better brand recognition with PayPal), and if Musk would've had it his way, PayPal as brand wouldn't exist post-merge; it would have been called X.com.
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mattmaroon 496 days ago
I said "for some definition" because according a legal settlement he made with the others, he did found it.
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