Vance says following the WeChat model makes sense with what Musk wants for Twitter. You use it to communicate, to consume news, to buy things, to pay your rent, to book appointments with your doctor and even to pay fines," said Vance. "He wants to create an app similar to how WeChat is used in China, where it's part of the fabric of day-to-day life. (It's now been changed to "Y.")īut lately, "X" has referred to Musk's newest ambition, building an "everything app" akin to China's popular WeChat, which doesn't yet have a U.S.-parallel. The couple named their second child, a girl, Exa Dark Sideræl Musk. (Æ is pronounced "ash," Musk told controversial podcast host Joe Rogan.) In 2020, Musk and his then-partner, Grimes, welcomed a son via surrogate, naming him X Æ A-12 Musk. X, the first letter of his youngest son's name
But Ford owns the right to the Model E, which is why Musk later settled on the Model 3, "kind of a backwards E," he said. "The idea being that the Tesla models would spell out the word 'sexy,'" Higgins said. The letter X became the name of Tesla's third model, which debuted in 2015. "It's kind of this common theme throughout." "X marks the spot in a lot of ways for Elon Musk," said Tim Higgins, a Wall Street Journal reporter and the author of Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century.
In 2017, Musk repurchased the url "X.com" from PayPal, tweeting that the domain "has great sentimental value." "Everyone tried to talk him out of naming the company that back then because of the sexual innuendos, but he really liked it and stuck with it," said Vance. But the billionaire hasn't given much explanation as to what it means.ĭays earlier, a filing in a federal court case in California confirmed Twitter had been folded into X Corp.Īccording to biographers, the letter X frames where Musk's ambitions are headed, while paying homage to Musk's entrepreneurial start.Īccording to Ashlee Vance, the author of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Musk's obsession with the letter X began with one of the billionaire's earliest ventures, X.com, which later merged with a competitor to become PayPal. Musk has tacked the letter X onto his business ventures and more. Musk had teased the announcement a day earlier, tweeting: "I've hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. "Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app," he wrote on Friday. Elon Musk tweeted that he'd picked Twitter's next CEO: Linda Yaccarino, who oversaw advertising at NBCUniversal for more than a decade.
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