An attempt was made to re-brand PayPal to X before this Twitter situation
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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Not idiots apparently. Still dislike PayPal however
paypal sucks, but at least it sucks with dignity!
The best kind of sucking
Jokes aside, no.
No it is not.
I dunno I'd rather a monocle be involved somewhere
😂
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.
At least it supports 2FA with hardware keys. Something that seemingly no bank is able to support after years and years have passed...
Agreed, smarter for not re-branding to be like an adult website but still a bad service.
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.
Can Elongated Muskrat just rename himself to X at this point?
Was it the 10th kid?
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.
Nitter still works. No login needed.
Excellent, thanks for that
When you have billion dollars I doubt he cares what imUS regulars really think. Also, we , regulars keep complaining no matter what