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  XDG🐉 (@xdgjp) reported 2 minutes ago

  The Trajectory of Elon Musk: A Modern Industrial Miracle The Man Who Turned Dreams into Industries and Reached the Threshold of Becoming the First Trillionaire in Human History - 3 Chapter 5: X .com and PayPal: Putting Money on the Internet After Zip2, Musk turned his attention to finance. He believed that the internet would change not only the flow of information, but also the flow of money. Banking, remittances, payments, securities, and person-to-person transactions could all become faster, cheaper, and more convenient online. This led him to found X .com. The name also seems, in retrospect, like a precursor to his later renaming of Twitter as X. For Musk, “X” represented an unknown variable, a symbol that could become anything, and a broader concept for integrating the future infrastructure of finance, communications, and society. X .com later merged with Confinity and evolved into PayPal. PayPal spread rapidly, especially in online marketplaces such as eBay. It addressed the fear of sending money to strangers, the anxiety of sharing card information, and the inconvenience of online payments. PayPal provided a system that solved these problems at once. Payments are the bloodstream of the economy. When that bloodstream moved onto the internet, the speed of commerce changed. In 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for approximately $1.5 billion. Through this sale, Musk obtained even greater capital. For an ordinary entrepreneur, this might have been the point at which the next step was wealth preservation. He might have become a venture investor. He might have diversified into real estate or public equities. He could have chosen to live as a safe and extremely wealthy man. Musk chose the opposite path. Chapter 6: The Turning Point After the Sale of PayPal After the sale of PayPal, Musk had two paths before him. One was to preserve his wealth as a successful young millionaire. The other was to risk nearly everything on enormous dreams that almost no one yet seriously believed in. He chose the latter. That choice is the greatest dividing line between Elon Musk and many other successful people. He was not the type of person who became cautious because he had succeeded. He was the type of person who, because he had succeeded, wagered his success on the next impossibility. The problems he was looking at were not short-term profit opportunities. Earth’s energy problem. Dependence on fossil fuels. The risk of humanity being confined to a single planet. The high cost of space transportation. The danger of artificial intelligence. Urban traffic congestion. The separation between the human brain and computers. His businesses may appear unrelated, but in reality they are connected by one broad vision. Tesla exists for sustainable energy and transportation. SpaceX exists to make humanity a multiplanetary species. Starlink exists as a global communications network and a revenue source for space development. X exists to integrate information, finance, and social communication. xAI exists to secure leadership in the age of artificial intelligence. Neuralink exists to change the relationship between humans and AI. The Boring Company exists to move urban transportation underground. All of them are attempts to build the infrastructure of the future. Chapter 7: The Birth of SpaceX: The Rationality Behind the Madness of Mars In 2002, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX. His motivation was not simply that he wanted to build rockets. He believed that for humanity to survive over the long term, it needed a foothold beyond Earth. A massive asteroid, nuclear war, climate crisis, pandemic, or AI risk could destroy civilization. If even one of these threats ended civilization, the story of humanity would end. Therefore, humanity needed to build a self-sustaining city on Mars. That was his logic. Many people laughed. A private citizen was starting a rocket company. A startup was challenging a space industry dominated by NASA and enormous defense contractors. And its ultimate goal was the colonization of Mars. At the time, this sounded absurd. But Musk saw rockets not as mythology, but as a cost structure. The greatest reason rockets are expensive is that they are disposable. If airplanes were discarded after every flight, airfares would be astronomical. Therefore, rockets should also be made reusable. The logic was simple. The execution was extremely difficult. SpaceX began with Falcon 1. Start with a small rocket, and if it succeeds, scale up. But the early launches failed repeatedly. A rocket explodes over the smallest mistake. Software can be fixed and restarted. Rockets are different. When a launch fails, the vehicle, the fuel, the payload, and investor confidence all disappear at once. Still, SpaceX continued. With each failure, it collected data, revised the design, and moved on to the next launch. Chapter 8: His Encounter with Tesla: Making Electric Cars Anything but Boring In 2004, Musk made a major investment in Tesla Motors. Tesla had been founded by Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and others with the aim of building electric vehicles. At the time, the image of electric vehicles was poor. Slow. Expensive. Short range. Uninspired design. A special car for a small group of environmentally conscious consumers. Musk disliked this assumption. His goal was not to create an “eco-car” that people drove out of sacrifice, but rather a fast, beautiful, desirable electric vehicle. The Tesla Roadster symbolized that idea. It showed that an electric vehicle could be fast and enjoyable as a sports car. The strategy was to prove the technology first at the high end, then expand through the Model S, Model X, and Model 3. It was a strategy that moved from luxury vehicles toward mass-market vehicles. Here again, Musk was not merely an environmental activist. He did not simply say, “Let us do something good.” He believed that if people created products others genuinely wanted, society would change as a result. People are not moved by lectures. They are moved by things that are fast, convenient, and beautiful. That was the core of Tesla’s strategy.

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  Jane Nicholas (@jnicholas26496) reported 4 minutes ago

  @CharlieZachary8 Thank you….my problem is….I don’t have PayPal and Csh App won’t explain to me why they closed my account.

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  Crypto_curious🌳 (@crypto_curious0) reported 5 minutes ago

  Settleme solved a problem I had: PayPal was bleeding me 10-15% per payment. Freelancers losing margins. Merchants losing money. Africa getting worse rates than everywhere else. Simple fix: cut the middleman. But yesterday, they hinted something big and it solve big problem.

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  GhostofDan (@DanRunner42) reported 7 minutes ago

  $ADBE is where $PYPL has been for years now, a cash generating juggernaut that, nonetheless, gets hammered into the ground, due to market perception that it has no moat, and won't be viable in the long run... This stock has always scared me just looking at it's Volume Profile Ranges, very thin support until it get's into the $100 range, which is where it could likely be headed............ Losing $250 at the Ascending Blue 2/1 Gann Fan Angle was significant, Longs were making a stand there, and I think that's where Michael Burry bought as well, if it could've recovered there, it would've likely hit $400 next, then the perfect storm of high jobs/inflation numbers, Iran War flaring up again, and SpaceX IPO sucking out all the liquidity in the Market killed off high Multiple SAAS stocks again, and all that was *BEFORE* Adobe earnings announced it's CFO was leaving.... Maybe the market was over-reacting following earnings, especially with how good the numbers actually were, who knows, if it can regain the $205 level on Monday, at it's 12-24-2018 daily low, perhaps the stock can experience an epic Dead Cat Bounce back to re-test $250. If it loses $205 though, $175 at the Ascending 3/1 Gann Fan Angle is next. My Bearish case scenario, is this sucker hits $75 at the bottom of it's Ascending Gann Fan Structure, where my finger Icon is pointing, it'll be similar to what happened with Paypal, the Short sellers are looking to break the stock below the Gann Fan bottom support, to trade significantly lower.... How much lower, you say....well, Strong Volume Support doesn't begin till Adobe hits $45, down to $30. Which seems impossible, but, gotta fund the Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs somehow, right?

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  Aleksi Luostarinen (@Acxxu) reported 7 minutes ago

  @greg_travis @TomChivers @cafreiman Kk, no worries. My English sometimes fails me. PayPal solved major issues in almost-instant monetary transfers across the globe (in its day), allowing many small organizations to operate more fluently, small businesses to build outside their regional location, reduced bank xfer delays also internationally (yes, it wasn't Elon alone, yes there are other providers, yes PayPal has fees too, yes the money can get held, yes there may be fraud, ..)

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  Ross Hendricks (@Ross__Hendricks) reported 9 minutes ago

  @CousinGraig No analog to PayPal whatsoever other than both stocks being down

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  Anish Moonka (@anishmoonka) reported 10 minutes ago

  Today SpaceX went public and raised $75 billion, the most money any company has ever raised going public. In 2008, that same company had $200,000 left in the bank and one rocket launch away from shutting down for good. Elon Musk had already spent his entire fortune, $100 million from selling PayPal, on SpaceX and Tesla. Both were running out of cash. He was borrowing money from friends to pay rent and didn't own a house or anything he could sell. They had enough money for one more launch. On September 28, 2008, the fourth launch finally worked. A small team had been stationed on a remote Pacific island to run those launches. SpaceX became the first private company to ever reach space, and within weeks, NASA handed them a $1.6 billion contract to supply the International Space Station. The company survived. SpaceX's main rocket now launches more than 3 times a week, with a 99.8% success rate. In 2008, before any of this existed, getting one kilogram of cargo to space cost around $10,000. SpaceX brought it down to $2,500. The company now handles 85% of all American rocket launches. Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet service, has 8.5 million paying customers in over 100 countries and brought in $11.4 billion last year. SpaceX's first employee is throwing a 6 a.m. party today after 24 years building the company. SpaceX is now worth $1.77 trillion, larger than Tesla. 4,400 of the people who built it are becoming millionaires today, and about 400 will end up with $100 million or more. Most of this wealth sits in Brownsville, Texas, one of the poorest cities in the United States, where SpaceX employs 3,000 people at its launch facility. Many of them are welders, cafeteria workers, and hourly workers who took company stock instead of higher guaranteed wages. They stayed through the years when that stock was worth close to nothing. Today's $135 share price is 24 years of patience paying off.

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  VJRadRick (@VJRadRick) reported 12 minutes ago

  + @CashApp can't login forgot which of my 20 emails firm 20 years I used badui wint reset based upon. Cash app tag = $fundingbyricky I tried to create new acct however my cash app tag assigned please send a verification to my registered Email not phone old # locked out I'm a square PayPal merchant

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  Peter Luce (@krazyrabbi) reported 14 minutes ago

  @CTVNews Oh, Elon only succeeded because of “government help”? Spare us the tears. This is the same script they wheel out for any innovator who dares outperform the status quo. SpaceX didn’t get “handouts”—it won fixed-price contracts by actually delivering reusable rockets that slashed launch costs from $100M+ to pennies on the dollar. NASA was begging for alternatives after decades of Boeing/Lockheed grift and Shuttle disasters. That $1.6B? Earned through results, not cronyism. SpaceX now flies more missions than the rest of the world combined, rescues astronauts, and builds Starship while SLS burns billions in pork. Tesla’s $465M DOE loan? Repaid early with interest—unlike the solar flops and EV zombies that defaulted. EV tax credits? Buyer incentives that accelerated an industry Tesla invented from near-zero. Regulatory credits? That’s what happens when you disrupt dinosaurs too slow to meet standards they lobbied for. GM, Ford, and Chrysler got bailouts, tariffs, and endless subsidies for decades of mediocrity. Where’s their hit piece? Elon risked everything—near bankruptcy multiple times, sleeping on factory floors—while building PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, Boring, and xAI. CNN/CTV cherry-pick taxpayer “help” (which every major company navigates) but ignore the trillions in value created: reusable spaceflight, EVs forcing legacy auto to adapt, Starlink connecting remote communities, and pushing humanity multi-planetary. This isn’t journalism; it’s salty obituary for a dying narrative. Government didn’t make Elon. Elon exposed how inefficient government-dependent incumbents truly are. Cry harder, legacy media. The future isn’t subsidized by your tears. 🚀

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  Zlyvok Comms open🎉 (@Zlyvok) reported 18 minutes ago

  Question for artists who use Ko-fi: Have you ever had an issue where people couldn't donate to you? I've already had two people who were unable to donate. There don't seem to be any issues with my profile. I have PayPal connected, but I don't have Stripe set up.

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  Stephanie J McMurry (@StephJMcRD) reported 19 minutes ago

  @USPS in case you don’t look at emails. For the price of postage for a card & magazine I could’ve sent $ via PayPal or ordered a gift through Amazon with free delivery. What a terrible value for mailing a package

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  TRambo (@fattyfatman) reported 20 minutes ago

  @steady_profits It's paypal. They should pay a FAT dividend and wind down and slowly as they can before being acquired.

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  Jordan (@jzrdan) reported 25 minutes ago

  I’ve seen a few people here on X saying $ADBE is the next $PYPL (a value trap). It’s not. PayPal completely lost its moat. Stripe, Apple Pay, and Block didn’t just compete with them, they made Braintree and Checkout irrelevant at the infrastructure level. There was literally no switching cost left. Adobe still has the most powerful switching cost in software. Your entire creative life lives inside Creative Cloud. Your assets, fonts and your team’s shared libraries. AI doesn’t break that, it actually deepens it. The classic value trap has one main tell imo, FCF deteriorating before the multiple compresses. Walgreens, Intel & Paypal are all examples of this. $ADBE’s FCF is still compounding though. The reason the multiple compressed was on fear, not fact. Firefly isn’t Adobe’s white flag to AI, it’s their answer. You only call it a value trap when the business is actually broken and in my opinion, it’s not.

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  Daniel Ƀrrr (@csuwildcat) reported 27 minutes ago

  @sightONsound @kenwheeler No problem: he started w/ the lavish, obscene sum of <checks notes> $28k from his dad to cover expenses for Zip2, which he built into a $307M cash + $22M stock acquisition by Compaq. He then reinvested every penny into PayPal, Tesla, & SpaceX, nearly going bankrupt in the process

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  🔥Dom ☕️(smells like cinnamon)🍯Flare🔥 (@DadBodFlareon) reported 28 minutes ago

  Question? You’re all free to disagree and such Should I start a throne or share my PayPal for you guys to send cash? I usually don’t like receiving cash. But for me to get thst pc I need to create games. I might need some help. If you want I’ll put a pole down here

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  NOTIME (@nielsyl) reported 29 minutes ago

  Dear Elon, Congratulations! You finally hit that $1 trillion mark. That is a truly absurd amount of money I’m pretty sure the human brain isn't even wired to comprehend that many zeros. Since you’ve officially broken the scale, I have a modest proposal: why not celebrate this historic achievement by making a random person-me—a billionaire? I know, I know, "tax implications" and "fiduciary responsibility." But imagine the absolute chaos and hilarity of the headline: "Elon Musk Gifts Random Person $1B Just Because He Could." It would be the ultimate flex. Plus, you’d still have $999 billion left over, which I’m told is still technically "a lot." I’m currently busy trying to make my PayPal work more efficiently, and having an extra billion in there might just be the technical solution I need to finally get everything running smoothly. Consider it an investment in the most entertaining social experiment of the century. Best.

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  comicranch (@comicranch99430) reported 30 minutes ago

  @PayPal The fact that you have a link for help but the WORST Customer Service is beyond comical, your service blocks and restricts accounts on simple transcribe but allows 1000's of purchases with no limitations, trying to resolve issues is useless with this service

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  Sam's Owned Sock Shark (@femboiclickslut) reported 30 minutes ago

  I'm high and drunk... hopefully nobody steals my #horny #femboy #nudes or worse my PayPal login with anime boy feet

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  Stupid Show-Time Balloon🎪🎈🔞 (@GWhor334) reported 31 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal hey Paypal, can you fix your **** on helping my transfer money to a artist because they need the money yet your ******* app is retarded and wont let me deposit **** from my debit card.

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  J M O (@muse_mule) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Ally_Sammarco Sweetie, if the states didn’t allow billions in fraud, SNAP wouldn’t have had any issues. Because it would have been used as it was created and intended. Not for lazy people who think they can support multiple kids using assistance while feeding them crap to keep them sick for a lifetime. But yes, the man who owns the platform you’re crying on, which you likely accept electronic fund “donations” through a PayPal or Zelle type program (which only exists because Elon and PayPal) from people may drive EVs (whose technology was advanced by Elon) to homes being powered by solar panels (another industry that advanced faster due to Elon’s involvement). And now those people are going online and buying a product from a vendor on the other side of the world who never had access to the internet but now has Starlink. Which will only become bigger since the rockets, designed and produced by Elon, that take the satellites into orbit can now be reused- saving a ton of time, resources, and money. But let us know how Elon messed with the Doritos in the SNAP program again

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  Deerman (@BuckmanMcgeee) reported 36 minutes ago

  @oeoeoeoeoe_ @NobodyCaresEvr @NYCMayor Wrong again! His father had stakes in a mine, he didn’t own it. He got his money by selling PayPal and then mad incredibly risky loans to keep SpaceX afloat when it almost went bankrupt. Tone down your envy, it’s a bad color on you.

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  Johndwick411 (@johndwick411) reported 38 minutes ago

  @DissentFu Musk created value, PayPal, EVs, reusable rockets,that employs people and grew the economy. Your situation has nothing to do with him. Blaming billionaires is just cope to avoid owning your choices. At 52 you can still fix habits and skills, but resentment guarantees you’ll stay exactly where you are.

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  Raj k (@emckiranu) reported 39 minutes ago

  Right now you have... whatever’s in your bank account. So quick question: Can you PayPal me (or anyone reading this) $5,000 today? No? Not even $100? Not $20 so some kid can eat tonight? You can’t even solve one person’s problems with your current money, but with a trillion you’d magically fix the entire planet? Bro, the math doesn’t change just because you add more zeros.

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  FIA✞ (@inioluwavibes) reported 39 minutes ago

  @greengizie @akintollgate I get your point. Once trust is broken it’s hard to go back. That’s why many people now keep alternatives like @Vbanapp around for international transfers, virtual cards and cross border payments instead of relying solely on PayPal.

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  Haroon (@unfilterharoon) reported 42 minutes ago

  @simonateba Shane on you for wanting to steal other peoples hard earned money. He doesn’t live a lavish life. Guarantee you that you have more worldly possessions than he does. He invests every penny he’s ever made back into building things that help the world. He sold PayPal, and rather than just call it and never work again, he invested all of it and has grown it. Doesn’t own a home, sleeps on the floor in the office, couch hops friends homes while traveling. So ya, just shut up. You are just trying to stir trouble and be a thief

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  Krse Luke (@Lfjftgc) reported 43 minutes ago

  Ill just toss this out there If u have $87 I will pay u back by the end of the night And throw on an additional $5 In addition to your $550 coming in I know its asking a lot My app is slow to show the funds for withdrawl Blood pact that ill pay u back in paypal by 10pm

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  comicranch (@comicranch99430) reported 43 minutes ago

  @PayPal The fact that you have a link for help but the WORST Customer Service is beyond comical, your service blocks and restricts accounts on simple transcribe but allows 1000's of purchases with no limitations, trying to resolve issues is useless with this service

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  🅱️ete oaks (@b0newalljackson) reported 45 minutes ago

  @_GrandExchange_ @kingbtc i got on ebay and paypal in 01 and boa gave me trouble with that so by the time i got into crypto they stopped bothering me. i hear horror stories about them but knock on wood never had any issues with either them or cb

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  Alex Cruz (@AlexRguezz) reported 50 minutes ago

  @FinanceJack44 Good decision !! Some people lose a lot more money trying to swim against the waves. $ADBE is going to be another Paypal. Dead money !! Any ETF performs better than Adobe. Smart Investors shouldn’t have a stocks like that dragging down their portfolios.

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  The Higher Falutin (@RyBred87) reported 57 minutes ago

  @YodaStockInvest I like software but adbe ER response didn’t help. The market is a popularity contest now more than ever. Until a serious rotation starts happening, Im just watching. Paypal went down w great financials. I think its good for long term, but if youre active, just wait for breakout