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Tesla and SpaceX aligned with his vision from childhood. Twitter takeover is born out of the greed to be the first Trillionaire.

Telsa and SpaceX were built ground up to challenge atatus quo. Twitter comes with baggage, is a new space for him and a new competitive area altogether.

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Didn't he buy into Tesla?

Yes. He knew exactly where to invest, had the vision, and execute on it successfully. So Tesla is his baby.

Which vision was that, exactly?

https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-j... (2006)

https://www.tesla.com/blog/master-plan-part-deux (2016)

It's weird how he claims in that first blog post to be a cofounder. I wonder which other things he exaggerates or just plain lies about?

Those blog posts just sound like marketing to me

>Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.

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