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> record they don't understand why Elon calls himself a "Tesla founder"

And I explained why it is really not that insane. It was basically him throwing them a bone, they should be grateful. And of course they were horrible and ran Tesla into the ground and hid facts from Elon.

> I think he was referring to PayPal

I don't think so.

> X.com and designed a very simple page where you put two peoples email addresses and you "could" send them money. It was happening at the same time as PayPal had the same idea and similar website

This is not true. X.com from the beginning was payment company. Confinity was originally a security company for Palm platform. From there they switched to payments.

From Wikipedia:

> In March 2000, Confinity merged with x.com, an online financial services company founded in March 1999 by Elon Musk.

The two companies merged so all the people of both companies are rightly called founders. And non of the others disagree with that.

> because personal leverage of Musk father, who owns multiple diamond mines in ZA

Please provide evdience. This 'dimond mine' nonsense has mostly been discredited. The best researched story about that basically showed that it was like a 30k investment sometime in the 80s. Certainty not enough to convince a bank to do anything.

Musk father was wealthy because he was an engineer.

> This story was somewhat easy to find and popular back in the old days of the internet

And well researched probably ...




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