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An attempt was made to re-brand PayPal to X before this Twitter situation (biz.crast.net)

submitted 10 months ago by KrisND to c/therewasanattempt

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Elon Musk has tried to re-brand PayPal as "X" years ago and was shot down due to focus groups stating it reminded them of adult websites.

Thiel and PayPal co-founder Max Levchin plotted a coup against Musk while he was on his first vacation in years. The board fired Musk as CEO in September 2000 and replaced him with Thiel. Thiel formally changed the name of the combined company to PayPal in 2001.

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[–] b000urns 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Not idiots apparently. Still dislike PayPal however

[–] objectionist 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

paypal sucks, but at least it sucks with dignity!

[–] Junkers_Klunker 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The best kind of sucking

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

Jokes aside, no.

No it is not.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 points 10 months ago

I dunno I'd rather a monocle be involved somewhere

[–] b000urns 1 points 10 months ago

😂

[–] fluckx 3 points 10 months ago

Same. Registered for an account once and tried to pay on several sites and it just failed becaused the account was too new ( probably ).

Eventually I transferred the funds to steam and deleted the account. What a feckin pile of rubbish.

[–] KrisND 2 points 10 months ago

Agreed, smarter for not re-branding to be like an adult website but still a bad service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

At least it supports 2FA with hardware keys. Something that seemingly no bank is able to support after years and years have passed...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

Reminder that Musk became a mega millionaire by riding the .com bubble and scamming Compaq.

This is what made him a billionaire, Peter Thiel forcing him out of leadership.

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

Can Elongated Muskrat just rename himself to X at this point?

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

There’s a GREAT Twitter thread explaining everything that went on with this. Although I think you need an account there these days to read it all.

[–] Odo 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nitter still works. No login needed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Excellent, thanks for that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

When you have billion dollars I doubt he cares what imUS regulars really think. Also, we , regulars keep complaining no matter what