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  XDG🐉 (@xdgjp) reported 5 minutes ago

  The Trajectory of Elon Musk: A Modern Industrial Miracle The Man Who Turned Dreams into Industries and Reached the Threshold of Becoming the First Trillionaire in Human History - 3 Chapter 5: X .com and PayPal: Putting Money on the Internet After Zip2, Musk turned his attention to finance. He believed that the internet would change not only the flow of information, but also the flow of money. Banking, remittances, payments, securities, and person-to-person transactions could all become faster, cheaper, and more convenient online. This led him to found X .com. The name also seems, in retrospect, like a precursor to his later renaming of Twitter as X. For Musk, “X” represented an unknown variable, a symbol that could become anything, and a broader concept for integrating the future infrastructure of finance, communications, and society. X .com later merged with Confinity and evolved into PayPal. PayPal spread rapidly, especially in online marketplaces such as eBay. It addressed the fear of sending money to strangers, the anxiety of sharing card information, and the inconvenience of online payments. PayPal provided a system that solved these problems at once. Payments are the bloodstream of the economy. When that bloodstream moved onto the internet, the speed of commerce changed. In 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for approximately $1.5 billion. Through this sale, Musk obtained even greater capital. For an ordinary entrepreneur, this might have been the point at which the next step was wealth preservation. He might have become a venture investor. He might have diversified into real estate or public equities. He could have chosen to live as a safe and extremely wealthy man. Musk chose the opposite path. Chapter 6: The Turning Point After the Sale of PayPal After the sale of PayPal, Musk had two paths before him. One was to preserve his wealth as a successful young millionaire. The other was to risk nearly everything on enormous dreams that almost no one yet seriously believed in. He chose the latter. That choice is the greatest dividing line between Elon Musk and many other successful people. He was not the type of person who became cautious because he had succeeded. He was the type of person who, because he had succeeded, wagered his success on the next impossibility. The problems he was looking at were not short-term profit opportunities. Earth’s energy problem. Dependence on fossil fuels. The risk of humanity being confined to a single planet. The high cost of space transportation. The danger of artificial intelligence. Urban traffic congestion. The separation between the human brain and computers. His businesses may appear unrelated, but in reality they are connected by one broad vision. Tesla exists for sustainable energy and transportation. SpaceX exists to make humanity a multiplanetary species. Starlink exists as a global communications network and a revenue source for space development. X exists to integrate information, finance, and social communication. xAI exists to secure leadership in the age of artificial intelligence. Neuralink exists to change the relationship between humans and AI. The Boring Company exists to move urban transportation underground. All of them are attempts to build the infrastructure of the future. Chapter 7: The Birth of SpaceX: The Rationality Behind the Madness of Mars In 2002, Musk founded Space Exploration Technologies, known as SpaceX. His motivation was not simply that he wanted to build rockets. He believed that for humanity to survive over the long term, it needed a foothold beyond Earth. A massive asteroid, nuclear war, climate crisis, pandemic, or AI risk could destroy civilization. If even one of these threats ended civilization, the story of humanity would end. Therefore, humanity needed to build a self-sustaining city on Mars. That was his logic. Many people laughed. A private citizen was starting a rocket company. A startup was challenging a space industry dominated by NASA and enormous defense contractors. And its ultimate goal was the colonization of Mars. At the time, this sounded absurd. But Musk saw rockets not as mythology, but as a cost structure. The greatest reason rockets are expensive is that they are disposable. If airplanes were discarded after every flight, airfares would be astronomical. Therefore, rockets should also be made reusable. The logic was simple. The execution was extremely difficult. SpaceX began with Falcon 1. Start with a small rocket, and if it succeeds, scale up. But the early launches failed repeatedly. A rocket explodes over the smallest mistake. Software can be fixed and restarted. Rockets are different. When a launch fails, the vehicle, the fuel, the payload, and investor confidence all disappear at once. Still, SpaceX continued. With each failure, it collected data, revised the design, and moved on to the next launch. Chapter 8: His Encounter with Tesla: Making Electric Cars Anything but Boring In 2004, Musk made a major investment in Tesla Motors. Tesla had been founded by Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and others with the aim of building electric vehicles. At the time, the image of electric vehicles was poor. Slow. Expensive. Short range. Uninspired design. A special car for a small group of environmentally conscious consumers. Musk disliked this assumption. His goal was not to create an “eco-car” that people drove out of sacrifice, but rather a fast, beautiful, desirable electric vehicle. The Tesla Roadster symbolized that idea. It showed that an electric vehicle could be fast and enjoyable as a sports car. The strategy was to prove the technology first at the high end, then expand through the Model S, Model X, and Model 3. It was a strategy that moved from luxury vehicles toward mass-market vehicles. Here again, Musk was not merely an environmental activist. He did not simply say, “Let us do something good.” He believed that if people created products others genuinely wanted, society would change as a result. People are not moved by lectures. They are moved by things that are fast, convenient, and beautiful. That was the core of Tesla’s strategy.

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  BillionsMind (@BillionsM68468) reported 5 minutes ago

  and sucking reatils money to reach his EBAY target. it was never about $GME . he doesnt care about you. stock is down 60% last 5 years and profiles like this mor.n continue licking his ***

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  VikingGunnar (@Gunnar101lvdk) reported 9 minutes ago

  @klarque_clint its only been a week and people are selling rare sprites on ebay, this is a terrible mind set to have

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  Picstoral (@picstoral) reported 10 minutes ago

  I'm burnt out. Being pushed to "grow". Promoting a GoFundMe that's going nowhere. Selling on eBay. GAD out of control. A mobile home lot that's looking pretty weedy & I have to clean it myself. I still don't have a working furnace & the drains are still slow. My balance is still "off" & probably always will be. Now let's add a worsening back pain. I'm disabled FFS! There's not one moment where I can sit back & relax. Sleep is the only place I can get relief. Accidents do happen. 💊

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  trigunslinger.eth (@TriGunslinger) reported 14 minutes ago

  @heydomoshi Problem is @ryancohen doesn’t care about the share price he just wants eBay all great and all but he has no personal reason to defend the price your buying knowing it’s a crap stock (not crap company) until he is done getting what he wants…

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  BM_Cards (@BM_Cards2000) reported 14 minutes ago

  Might start grinding eBay again now that I have a label printer. I had bad luck with ESE not getting to the destination though and having to issue refunds. Any tips to fix that and better ways to pack?? I would use a standard envelope sleeved and toploader then wrap the card in paper and insert into envelope.

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  Milán Tolentino (@milantolentino) reported 17 minutes ago

  @ESCcollector @eBay Please shoot me a DM! I’m trying to reach out but the app won’t let me. Trying everything I can to track down this card!

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  Undercover Tiger (@propilot123) reported 21 minutes ago

  @lunarbisou Don’t let the haters get you down. Probably stealing to sell on eBay later 😭

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  Shilligans Island (@shilligans) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Poshmarkapp is terrible at customer service support. I will just pay more and stay on @eBay

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  Big J Sports Cards (@BigJsportscard) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Gbpoker0710 I feel that. Ebay sales for me in June have been so slow, but the grind never stops.

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  Will (@paninibcboy) reported 24 minutes ago

  @brockkraft @CardPurchaser So I just looked at recently sold on eBay and the last three sales on the chrome psa 10 are horrible so idk what to price it at. Probably just gonna keep it if the prices have crashed this bad. The flagship also.. looks like that one has come down a lot. Only the new applicant auto and the one out of /199 seem to have maintained over the past few months so id prob want to move those. New applicant auto - $700 Inspirational /199 - $100 But open to offers of course

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  Jen-X (@JenX_Based) reported 25 minutes ago

  Thank you SO MUCH. Today I will use this to eat well & buy a bag of food for my dog Joey. I've been living off the McDonald's app lately & i do need a good meal. The bag of dog food will last about 3 weeks because Joey eats with me sometimes too. Also I will have to save for my phone bill because its due tomorrow. I've no way to pay it right now Ebay income is dying because of the war & with limited inventory there im down to hope. Ill be ok if I can get out there & start hunting again. Ive been sick all morning though. 🤕 All I want is a fair fight. Dying we without Healthcare, especially when you know you could beat it, sucks. I appreciate you all. @Notwokenow thank you

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  Whatzittooya (@Whatsit67785114) reported 27 minutes ago

  @ParkedCards Why would you refund it? Ebay gives you a certain amount of Time to ship something. You did what was agreed on. And after that Point it is not your Problem anymore when it arrives. The buyer should know these risks.

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  Evan (@yllevan2) reported 28 minutes ago

  @uestradr $1k + $15k debt means you cant start paid affiliate (too small bankroll, gambling at this size) and organic affiliate is too slow to outrun the debt before interest eats you alive. First, call your creditors. Most credit card debt can be negotiated down 30-50% with a lump sum settlement. Could save you $5-7k off the $15k in one phone call. Highest ROI of an hour youll ever spend and most ppl forget this even exists. Just call, say youre struggling, offer 50% as lump settlement. Second, stop the bleeding. Cancel every subscription, no rideshare, no eating out, cheap rent or move home if possible. Saves $400-700/mo for most ppl. Compounds fast Third, get a high-velocity income source. If you dont have a job, the highest paying entry-level grind is door to door sales (solar, internet, roofing, security systems). $3-8k/mo realistic for grinders, top performers hit $15k+. Trades apprenticeship pays $20-30/hr fast. If you already have a job, get a 2nd one nights/weekends, or run rideshare for $2-3k/mo while you sleep less. Fourth, sell **** you own. Most ppl have $1-2k of clothes, electronics, sports gear, furniture just sitting around. Marketplace, ebay, depop. Fifth, build affiliate ORGANIC on the side. TikTok with affiliate links. 60-90 days of pure content before you see anything. Maybe $500-1500/mo by month 6 if you actually grind 1-2 hrs/day on it. Slow but free

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  Jophes (@J0phe5) reported 33 minutes ago

  Anyone else having problems shipping ESE this morning? I keep getting an error message saying “not possible to generate the label. There was a problem processing your request on the carrier’s system” @eBay