• halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    None of that is where his current fortune came from. That just gave him the ability to get to the US, via Canada, from South Africa.

    The base of his fortune came from selling PayPal to eBay back in 2002.

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      3 days ago

      No, actually it came from his brother starting a multimillion dollar business and give musk a handout with a job that regular joe would never get. His brother got the start up money from daddy. When it sold, musk got 22 million, which he then invested into PayPal. He did not start paypal, he was just an investor. Just like he did not start tesla, he was just an investor.

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      2 days ago

      Well sorta but not really, his family had back connections that they used to get money to start everything from there.