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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Can someone provide sources for the information? I'm not doubting it, just that relying solely on information from a meme without references is generally a bad idea

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

For PayPal he was actually fired, but still had a lot of shares. Musk was fired when the company he was CEO of (x.com), merged with Confinity. PayPal was a service of Confinity. Musk kept pushing his X concept, whilst the rest of the company wanted to go PayPal. Musk got pushed out over this and some other conflicts. Later PayPal made it big and the shares made Musk a bunch of money.

So for PayPal Musk had zero to do with it's success.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

No offense, but since you replied to the other comment: I don't think you know what a source is.

EDIT: lol, They asked for sources! You know, like links to proof...? It's the very first sentence!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can lead a dumb shit horse to water...

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago

Did you ask Bobandy?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well with Tesla, that was a lawsuit. He was being sued and due to the outcome, board members became co-founders. Legally Musk is considered a co-founder of Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

And that’s exactly how newspapers should phrase it:

Musk, who won the right to be called a cofounder of Tesla in court, …

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

His base would applaud that he won that right

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

His base doesn’t give a fuck if he founded Tesla though