[paxys]

We can call them last to the market once they are actually in the market. Robotaxi is at the moment vaporware.

[k4rli]

All of his enterprises are vaporware, if not to call a scam. Literally a vaporwave salesman.

[_mlbt]

There are advertised features of Teslas that are vaporware, but it’s a stretch to call them vaporware. xAI is also very real. Others have mentioned SpaceX. He bought Twitter/X but that’s not vaporware either. Neuralink is also real. The Boring Company has only dug 2 short tunnels so far, so the case can be made for calling that vaporware.

[alangibson]

SpaceX is not vaporware, but that's more because of Gwynne Shotwell than Musk.

[apparent]

So the astronauts were brought back from the ISS by vaporware?

[lenkite]

Wow, I didn't know that Starlink was vaporware.

[robertlagrant]

I need to stop paying for things with PayPal if it's just vaporware.

[FireBeyond]

PayPal isn't his. Never was.

He owned a company that merged with Confinity, which had already built a prototype of PayPal, registered trademarks, etc. at the time of merger.

He was made CEO. For four months. Which he spent trying to throw out the prototype written in Java because he only knew ASP.

Then the board fired him in absentia, the morning he left for his honeymoon. Not asked him to resign, not "focus on his family", but the moment he's gone, fired his ass.

Musk's contribution to the non-vaporware PayPal is "cashing the dividend checks".

[1123581321]

Wasn’t X and Confinity a 50-50 merger?

Thiel and Levchin fired Musk, but they made up. Thiel bet on SpaceX later when it needed cash to reach its first successful launch.