Elon Musk didn't buy Twitter, but rather the lingering regret from 25 years ago.Writing by: Nusk, Deep Tide TechFlow
Some dreams never die; they are just waiting for the right moment.
A premature baby of 1999
In March 1999, Palo Alto, 27-year-old Elon Musk made a decision that seemed almost absurd at the time.
He invested all $22 million he earned from selling Zip2 into a website called X.com.
Back then, Silicon Valley was still dominated by Yahoo and AOL, and the internet was seen as just portal sites. The idea of "online banking" was like promoting rockets in the horse-drawn carriage era. But Musk's vision for X.com was more than just an online bank; he wanted to create an online financial operating system: enabling all financial services—transfers, investments, loans, insurance, and even daily spending—on a single platform.
At that time, Silicon Valley thought this
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