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Part Two: I Do Not Like Elon Musk Very Much

Behind the Bastards

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X Dot Com CEO Elon Musk

Most tech millionaires like who started new businesses after their firsthit, got other people to put in the money. Elon musk is rare about musk, he he put most of his own fortune into x dot com um and this was really uncommon. And the reason why is because he wanted control. He wanted to be ceo this time around. So putting in the majority of the funding gave him control and meant other people could have less of a say over his vision and couldn't say no to him. One former employee later recalled, you look back and it was total insanity. We had what amounted to a hollywood movie set of a web site.

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