It’s because he bought X.com for the original PayPal back in the 90s and in a roundabout way, it came back to his possession. There are only three single character .com domains registered and he owns one of them. The other 23 letters have been reserved by ICANN.
I think it’s because he thinks it’s clever, because X marks the spot, or X is a symbol of an unknown like “Solve for X”.
And because in old school programming X was a commonly used label for a temporary variable placeholder.
X is also the Roman numeral for 10. So it could be that he figures it as a symbol of a 10 on a 10 out of 10 scale.
But all these are so common and generic it’s quite mundane, and you have to be somewhat childish to still think it’s cool when you are 50.
But there is of course also the Danish King Christian X, who was king of Denmark during WW2 and the German occupation. And quite the hero here.
But he was strongly against the Nazi’s, and protected the Jews in Denmark, so I think it’s extremely unlikely to be that.
It’s because he bought X.com for the original PayPal back in the 90s and in a roundabout way, it came back to his possession. There are only three single character .com domains registered and he owns one of them. The other 23 letters have been reserved by ICANN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-letter_second-level_domain
Yes, but it is still a shitty name, so why he is so obsessed with it?
If I owned a one of a kind ancient relic that was like a shitty carving of a dog, I’d still want to show it off to my friends.
It used to redirect to Tesla. Then he bought Twitter.
I think it’s because he thinks it’s clever, because X marks the spot, or X is a symbol of an unknown like “Solve for X”.
And because in old school programming X was a commonly used label for a temporary variable placeholder.
X is also the Roman numeral for 10. So it could be that he figures it as a symbol of a 10 on a 10 out of 10 scale.
But all these are so common and generic it’s quite mundane, and you have to be somewhat childish to still think it’s cool when you are 50.
But there is of course also the Danish King Christian X, who was king of Denmark during WW2 and the German occupation. And quite the hero here.
But he was strongly against the Nazi’s, and protected the Jews in Denmark, so I think it’s extremely unlikely to be that.