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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/🧵

@garius Amazing that all this happened between Zip2 sale in early 1999 and Sep 2000. Wow.

John Bull

@dshan people really don't realise how FAST it was all moving back then. It was a crazy time to be in tech