X.com was the startup Musk (and others) launched in 1999. It merged with another startup to create PayPal in 2000. Musk bought the X.com domain back a few years ago.
So yea, he’s been obsessed with the letter X for a while. Other than SpaceX, there’s also Tesla Model X.
Apparently Elon has a thing for the letter X. SpaceX, naming his son “X Æ A-12”, and now renaming Twitter.
X.com was the startup Musk (and others) launched in 1999. It merged with another startup to create PayPal in 2000. Musk bought the X.com domain back a few years ago.
So yea, he’s been obsessed with the letter X for a while. Other than SpaceX, there’s also Tesla Model X.
Who could blame the greatest minds from being entranced by a mysterious “X”?
My personal favorite X
Not risking that click 😉
PS. Is Rick-Rolling allowed here, or was that just on R?
It’s X from the Mega Man X video game series.
But SpaceX at least is only short for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
Yeah, nothing to do with a man-child giggling that it sounds like space-sex a bit.
Model X is called that because he wanted the models to spell SEXY - but Ford still owns “Model E” so he had to go with S3XY instead.
What a tool.