To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.
And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.
Here's how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology
@tito_swineflu @garius Yeah, related to this point, I think a good chunk of those early PP engineers would not have been willing to work at an MS shop. Seriously: there would likely have been significant turnover. (I was a software engineer there shortly after the eBay buyout, so I worked with a lot of those early folks.)