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Episode 241: There Is No Twitter, Only X feat. Ryan Broderick

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Elon Musk's Rebranding of Twitter to X

Musk started an online finance company called X.com in 1999. He imagined X as a full service online bank, but it never really got there and instead merged with Peter Thiel's PayPal just before the dot com bust. Journalist Max Chafkin says Elon Musk was ousted as PayPal CEO partly because he fixated so much on this X rebranding for PayPal.

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