Inside Elon Musk’s Fascination With ‘X’?

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Space?X,?the?Tesla?Model?XX?AI,?I?don't?know?very?many?people?who?might?say?they?have?a?favorite?letter,?but?with?Elon?Musk,?it's?very?clear?it's?x?and?now?Twitter?joins?the?ranks?of?the?billionaire's?other?companies?as?its?name?switches?to?X.?But?while?the?name?is?new,?the?URL?X?dot?com?isn't.?It's?the?latest?chapter?in?a?story?that?Musk?started?more?than?two?decades?ago.?I?think?x?dot?com?could?absolutely?be?a?multi?billion?dollar?bonanza.?Here's?why?the?previous?x?dot?com?didn't?stick?and?what?its?past?can?tell?us?about?the?app's?future.?Oh,?XX,?yeah,?you?will?be?the?letter?of?the?day.?Oh,?you?bet?I?will.?

Space?X，特斯拉Model?XX?AI，我不知道很多人可能會說他們有最喜歡的信，但有了埃隆·馬斯克，很明顯它是x，現(xiàn)在Twitter加入了億萬富翁其他公司的行列，因為它的名字切換到X。但是，雖然名稱是新的，但URL?X?dot?com不是。這是馬斯克二十多年前開始的故事的最新篇章。我認(rèn)為x?dot?com絕對可以成為數(shù)十億美元的財富。這就是為什么以前的x?dot?com沒有堅持下去的原因，以及它的過去可以告訴我們該應(yīng)用程序的未來。哦，XX，是的，您將成為當(dāng)今的字母。哦，你打賭我會的。

Musk?launched?the?original?X?dot?com?in?1999?as?a?banking?site?after?selling?his?first?startup?Zip.?2?x?dot?com?in?his?conception?at?that?time?was?going?to?be?the?one?stop?shop?for?financial?service.?Jimmie?Sony?is?the?author?of?the?founders,?a?book?about?the?beginning?of?PayPal.?He?spent?six?years?interviewing?Musk?and?his?colleagues?about?the?early?days?of?the?company.?He?thought?it?was,?as?he?put?it,?to?me,?quote,?the?coolest?URL?on?the?internet.?That's?what.?Well,?if?we?can?combine?all?all?types?of?financial?services?in?one,?so?you?can?have?like?mortgages?like?basically?all?your,?your?entire?financial?relationship?seamlessly?integrated?together?in?one?place?online.?That?would?be?cool.?

馬斯克在出售了他的第一家初創(chuàng)公司Zip后，于1999年作為一家銀行網(wǎng)站推出了最初的X?dot?com。當(dāng)時他構(gòu)想中的2?x?dot?com將成為金融服務(wù)的一站式商店。吉米·索尼?(Jimmie?Sony)?是《創(chuàng)始人》?(the?founders)?的作者，這是一本關(guān)于貝寶?(PayPal)?開始的書。他花了六年時間采訪馬斯克和他的同事，了解公司成立初期的情況。他認(rèn)為，正如他所說，對我來說，這是互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上最酷的網(wǎng)址。就是這樣。好吧，如果我們可以將所有類型的金融服務(wù)結(jié)合在一起，那么您就可以像基本上所有的抵押貸款一樣，您的整個金融關(guān)系在網(wǎng)上無縫地整合在一起。那很酷。

According?to?Sony,?Musk?thought?x?dot?com?had?advantages.?It?was?short,?making?it?easier?to?type?into?a?browser?and?helpful?for?naming?different?products.?X?as?a?digit?as?a?as?a?variable?allows?you?to?say?x?checking?x,?PayPal,?x?loans?x?this?x?click?x?that.?So?the?idea?was?that?x?was?a?kind?of?hub,?and?from?it?would?emerge?all?these?other?financial?spokes.?But?this?vision?for?Musk's?site?didn't?pan?out?in?2000?ex?dot?com?merged?with?Confinity,?the?company?that?owned?PayPal?to?peer?payment?product.?

根據(jù)索尼的說法，馬斯克認(rèn)為x?dot?com具有優(yōu)勢。它很短，可以更輕松地輸入瀏覽器，并且有助于命名不同的產(chǎn)品。X作為一個數(shù)字作為一個變量允許你說x檢查x，PayPal，x貸款x這個x點擊x那個。因此，我們的想法是x是一種樞紐，并由此產(chǎn)生所有其他金融輻條。但馬斯克網(wǎng)站的這一愿景并沒有在2000年前與Confinity合并，后者擁有PayPal?to?peer?payment產(chǎn)品。

And?founders?Musk,?Max?Levchin,?Peter?Thiel?and?other?executives?disagreed?on?several?things.?One?was?the?name.?Some?of?the?x?dot?com.?People?believe?that?X?is?a?touch?salacious.?It's?a?little?confusing.?It's?even?sinister.?They?hear?this?directly?from?customers.?Money?was?also?a?problem.?The?company?wasn't?making?a?profit?yet?and?was?reimbursing?customers?who?had?been?defrauded?online.?The?PayPal?folks,?the?Confinity?team,?Max?and?Peter's?team,?are?saying?to?themselves,?listen,?we?don't?have?a?lot?of?runway?fraud?is?very,?very?high.?The?economy?is?clearly?collapsing?and?we?have?this?successful?product?called?PayPal.?We?should?put?all?our?eggs?in?that?basket.?

創(chuàng)始人馬斯克、馬克斯·列夫欽、彼得·泰爾和其他高管在幾件事上意見不一。一個是名字。一些x點公司。人們認(rèn)為X是一種卑鄙的東西。有點混亂。甚至險惡。他們直接從顧客那里聽到這個消息。錢也是個問題。該公司還沒有盈利，正在償還網(wǎng)上被騙的客戶。貝寶?(PayPal)?的員工，禁閉團(tuán)隊，馬克斯?(Max)?和彼得?(Peter)?的團(tuán)隊對自己說，聽著，我們沒有太多的跑道欺詐行為非常非常高。經(jīng)濟(jì)顯然正在崩潰，我們有這個名為PayPal的成功產(chǎn)品。我們應(yīng)該把所有的雞蛋都放在那個籃子里。

Musk?was?eventually?forced?out?of?the?company?and?temporarily?left?behind?ex?dot?com?and?his?ambitions?for?the?site,?but?he?came?back?to?the?URL?in?2017?must?repurchase?the?domain?tweeting,?but?it?held?sentimental?value?to?him.?He?held?on?to?it?and?held?on?to?the?ideas?for?20?plus?years,?and?now?he?is?trying?to?bring?them?back?to?life.?

馬斯克最終被迫離開公司，暫時落后于ex?dot?com和他對該網(wǎng)站的野心，但他在2017年回到了必須回購域名推文的網(wǎng)址，但這對他來說具有情感價值。他堅持了20多年，堅持了這些想法，現(xiàn)在他正試圖讓它們復(fù)活。

Musk?says?that?the?PayPal?that?emerged?in?the?years?after?he?left?the?company?didn't?match?the?vision?he?had?for?x?dot?com.?Like?if?PayPal?executed?the?plan?that?I?wanted?to?execute?on,?I?think?it?would?probably?be?the?most?valuable?company?in?the?world.?Yeah,?we?called?Expedia?would?be?the?most?goddess?company?in?the?world.?

馬斯克說，他離開公司后幾年出現(xiàn)的貝寶?(PayPal)?與他對x?dot?com的愿景不符。就像PayPal執(zhí)行我想執(zhí)行的計劃一樣，我認(rèn)為它可能是世界上最有價值的公司。是的，我們稱Expedia將是世界上最女神的公司。

He?told?the?all?in?podcast?last?year?prior?to?his?purchase?of?Twitter?that?he?wanted?to?create?an?app?that?emulates?WeChat?from?China.?If?you're?in?China,?it's?basically?you?kind?of?live?on?WeChat.?It?does?everything.?It's?sort?of?like?Twitter?plus?PayPal?plus?a?whole?bunch?of?other?things.?And?oral?into?one?was?actually?a?great?interface.?And?it's?really?an?excellent?ap

去年，在購買Twitter之前，他告訴?“all?in?podcast”，他想創(chuàng)建一個模仿中國微信的應(yīng)用程序。如果你在中國，基本上就是你在微信上生活。它做一切。這有點像推特加上貝寶加上一大堆其他的東西?？谑龀梢惑w實際上是一個很好的界面。它確實是一個出色的應(yīng)用程序。

Purchasing?Twitter?opened?up?another?chance,?but?this?time?Musk?had?more?to?work?with

購買Twitter打開了另一個機(jī)會，但這一次馬斯克還有更多工作要做。

When?Elon?talked?about?why?he?was?buying?Twitter,?he?said?as?Jump-starting?his?grandeur?ambitions?for?X,?And?with?that?acquisition?in?late?2022,?he?was?getting?a?huge?user?base?that?had?already?grown?accustomed?to?coming?to?Twitter?on?a?daily?basis.?Musk?said?in?a?tweet?that?the?shift?to?X?reflects?Twitter's?expanded?capabilities?since?he?took?over?the?site,?saying?the?name?Twitter?made?more?sense?when?it?was?just?140?character?messages?going?back?and?forth.?But?he?and?Twitter?CEO?Linda?Jacqueline?hinted?at?a?future?for?the?site.?They?could?look?more?like?Musk's?original?vision?advances?in?tech?since?1999?could?help?X?succeed?where?x?dot?com?failed.?I?think?that?when?Elon?was?trying?to?do?ex?dot?com?in?1999,?most?people?were?dialing?up?to?get?their?internet?web?pages?loaded?super?slow.?There?was?no?mobile?app?system.?There?was?no?iPhone.?But?some?of?the?problems?x?dot?com?faced?in?1999?are?still?a?problem?today.?

當(dāng)埃隆?(Elon)?談到為什么要收購Twitter時，他說，這是他對X的宏偉野心的開端，隨著2022年底的收購，他獲得了龐大的用戶群，這些用戶群已經(jīng)習(xí)慣于每天使用Twitter。馬斯克在一條推文中說，向X的轉(zhuǎn)變反映了Twitter自接管該網(wǎng)站以來的功能擴(kuò)展，他說Twitter這個名字在來回發(fā)送140個字符的消息時就變得更加感知。但他和Twitter首席執(zhí)行官琳達(dá)·杰奎琳?(Linda?Jacqueline)?暗示了該網(wǎng)站的未來。它們看起來更像是馬斯克自1999年以來在科技領(lǐng)域的最初愿景進(jìn)步，可以幫助X在x?dot?com失敗的地方取得成功。我認(rèn)為，當(dāng)Elon在1999年嘗試做ex?dot?com時，大多數(shù)人都在撥號以使他們的internet網(wǎng)頁加載速度非常慢。沒有移動應(yīng)用程序系統(tǒng)。沒有iPhone。但是x?dot?com在1999年面臨的一些問題今天仍然是一個問題。

Like?the?name,?it's?not?clear?exactly?it?what?the?rights?are?for?X?as?a?company?going?forward,?not?just?in?the?US,?but?around?the?world?with?various?jurisdictions.?And?also?it's?one?of?those?things.?It's?not?clear?what?the?user?is?going?to?think?of.?It?is,?is?this?a?dirty?website?or?is?this?going?to?be?the?world's?greatest?financial?institution??And?money?is?still?an?issue.?The?site?has?struggled?to?win?back?advertising?dollars.?It?lost?during?Musks?takeover?and?it?look?on?billions?in?debt?during?the?sale.?

就像這個名字一樣，目前還不清楚X作為一家未來公司的權(quán)利是什么，不僅在美國，而且在世界各地都有不同的司法管轄區(qū)。這也是其中之一。尚不清楚用戶會想到什么。這是一個骯臟的網(wǎng)站，還是將成為世界上最偉大的金融機(jī)構(gòu)？錢仍然是一個問題。該網(wǎng)站一直在努力贏得廣告收入。它在Musks收購期間失敗了，在出售期間看起來有數(shù)十億美元的債務(wù)。

Plus?attempts?at?a?super?app?having?taken?off?in?the?US?and?regulators?have?voiced?concerns?about?social?networks?dabbling?in?finance,?like?when?Meta?attempted?a?crypto?payment?system?in?team.?The?US?has?rules?in?place?to?protect?consumers.?And?there's?a?lot?of?hurdles?and?steps?that?involved?to?become?a?bank?or?to?become?a?financial?institution.?

此外，在美國開始使用超級應(yīng)用程序的嘗試以及監(jiān)管機(jī)構(gòu)對社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)涉足金融的擔(dān)憂，例如Meta嘗試在team中使用加密支付系統(tǒng)時。美國制定了保護(hù)消費(fèi)者的規(guī)則。成為銀行或成為金融機(jī)構(gòu)涉及許多障礙和步驟。

So?lets?one?of?the?things?that?Elon?Musk?will?have?to?deal?with?as?he?kind?of?expands?what?X?is?or?what?it?wants?to?be.?

因此，讓埃隆·馬斯克?(Elon?Musk)?在某種程度上擴(kuò)展X是什么或它想要成為什么時必須處理的一件事。

X?didn't?comment,?but?people?familiar?with?how?Musk?works?say?not?to?count?him?out.?This?is?me,?curling?of?Forty's?5.?While?there?are?lots?of?really?smart?people?out?there?who?say?being?able?to?replicate?a?super?app?here?in?the?US?is?impossible?or?really?hard?to?do,?you?kind?of?get?the?idea?that?he's?looking?to?prove?them?wrong,?that?he's?going?to?be?very,?very?excited?to?show?what?he?can?do.?Now,?if?he's?successful,?let's?still?the?question.?

X沒有發(fā)表評論，但熟悉馬斯克工作原理的人說不要把他排除在外面。這是我，四十五歲的冰壺。雖然有很多非常聰明的人說能夠在美國復(fù)制一個超級應(yīng)用程序是不可能的，或者真的很難做到，但你會覺得他想證明他們是錯的，他會非常，非常興奮地展示他的能力?，F(xiàn)在，如果他成功了，我們還是個問題。

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