To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.
And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.
Here's how that happened. 1/ #history #technology
@garius Amazing that all this happened between Zip2 sale in early 1999 and Sep 2000. Wow.
@dshan people really don't realise how FAST it was all moving back then. It was a crazy time to be in tech