>>1753337Even then, PayPal wasn’t his project. His was
x.com, and he just bought PayPal, which worked better. He wanted to call it
x.com, but his fathers investors were luckily smart and told Elon that was retarded.
Elon bought Tesla after the engineering of the roadster was 90% done. He just brought the investors with the connections to bring it to market.
Musk has a talent for recognizing openings in the market for profit, and he’s great at selling himself. But he’s retarded at engineering and marketing products of his own. He’s lucky that he was born knowing the right people, and he would’ve just been a tai Lopez if it weren’t for that.