alt Hacker NewsHis "ventures" started out with PayPal. Not exactly nerd culture.
For the nerdy ones, he bought his way in; he never actually founded Tesla.
Everything you think you know about him, at least as expressed in this post, is a result of his carefully crafted PR propaganda.
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zozbot234 • yesterday at 1:49 PM
Buying one's way in doesn't exactly negate being interested in the underlying venture. He still had to provide significant funding.
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Suggesting nerds were never interested in electronic payment systems seems like a very No True Scotsman argument to me.