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by JumpCrisscross 8 days ago
> How did Elon get so much NVIDIA hardware before everyone else?

He’s the richest man on the planet and doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys. If you want to reliably offload your chips, he’s safer than e.g. OpenAI who might or might not have the money when the bill comes due.
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lmeyerov 8 days ago
tesla not paying bills: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/us/elon-musk-company-unpaid-l...

x not paying bills: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/24/musks-twitter-has-been-sued-...

spacex not paying bills: https://www.fastcompany.com/91124157/spacex-contractors-texa...

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root-parent 8 days ago
It has been leaked the have a huge open bill with AWS....
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ckastner 8 days ago
> He’s the richest man on the planet and doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys.

My impression was the other way around. The shenanigans he pulled around the Twitter acquisition were just farcical, and at Twitter he repeatedly refused to pay owed rent, etc. (I assume as a ploy to renegotiate terms).

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usefulcat 8 days ago
> doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys

You mean like the time he committed to buying Twitter and then tried to back out of a legally binding contractual agreement to finalize the deal?

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4ffss 8 days ago
"doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys"

Hahaaha. A solid admission of being clueless.

Elon has a strong track record of doing shady stuff to get out of deals.

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