On: Grok is now free for all X users

[n2d4]

He's had it for a while — he founded another company 20 years ago, x.com, which merged into PayPal. Following that, he wanted to rebrand PayPal into x.com, and was eventually fired for it

[bloomingkales → n2d4]

For that exact desire?

[imnotjames → bloomingkales]

Partially. He basically kept ignoring the board and lying to the board -- and that was one such case.

Another example was he decided that all of PayPal needed to be Windows computers so every engineer has to stop what they were doing and convert. Board said stop, he said okay, then continued.

[n2d4 → bloomingkales]

Not exclusively — I've seen several reasons quoted, including the rebrand, Musk's shift from Unix to Windows, and his leadership style.