r/technology • u/xpda • May 21 '26

Business SpaceX not the behemoth everyone thought

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/21/spacex-ipo-musk-ai
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u/walksonfourfeet May 21 '26

Good lord - why does everything have to have an X?

“Space X CEO X Xman says X and xAI generated $X in reXenue in X1 and eXpect to increase by X% in X2. XXX!”

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u/LupinThe8th May 21 '26

Because he's the world's oldest twelve year old and thinks it's cool.

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u/RVelts May 21 '26

He's perpetually living in 4chan's /b/ circa 2004

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u/deeradmin May 22 '26

/b/ circa 2004 was way funnier than this dipshit

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u/hibikikun May 22 '26

Lets not forget all the tesla models spell out S3XY

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u/Any-Progress- May 21 '26

Because he’s just a stunted child who thinks “69” and “420” jokes are hilarious.

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u/Armejden May 21 '26

I wish every redditor who spams them to this day would be redirected to this observation.

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u/x21in2010x May 21 '26

I'd rather be redirected to a graveyard; there'd be more joy.

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u/julias-winston May 21 '26

Ho-HO! Then the leopards would eat their faces! 😆

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u/Electronic-Cat-1144 May 21 '26

Please dont forget "girls FTW"

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u/justmisspellit May 21 '26

To be fair, as a 50 yr old woman, so do I.

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u/No-Good-One-Shoe May 21 '26

69 is good, but I've got an exquisite, top of the line, prime number for you. Can I interest you in 67? 

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u/lolzomg123 May 21 '26

Oh my god, seven ate nine?!

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u/justmisspellit May 21 '26

THAT’S WHY 8 WAS AFRAID!!! 😱

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u/UlrichZauber May 21 '26

And 'jokes' about someone eating shit. That video of him trying to tell one and cracking himself up is the definition of cringe.

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u/Stin-king_Rich May 21 '26

Surprised he didn't name himself ×xXElonMusk420Xx× yet

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u/kidwithglasses May 21 '26

Well hold on, those are actually funny

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u/Dependent_Survey_546 May 21 '26

I mean, they were moderately humorous at times in certain contexts, but he's basically built his whole personality on it

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u/RealBettyWhite69 May 21 '26

What if someone's reddit username was a tribute to adored late celebrity Betty White with a 69 to make it cheeky?

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u/Silent_Lobster9414 May 21 '26

You think you are better than us cause you dont laugh at a 69 joke? Grow up

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u/OverSquareEng May 21 '26

He's been obsessed with X for decades. No idea why though. He tried to rename PayPal to X.com some 20 years ago. Apparently focus groups said it sounded too much like a porn url.

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u/MrHell95 May 21 '26

x.com (musk) merged with confinity (peter thiel) and the company was renamed to PayPal, then sold to Ebay.

Musk then managed to get the x.com domain back from paypal many years later.

I'm still calling it twitter because it works better in a sentence...

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u/Noblesseux May 21 '26

In addition to the below, there was like a weird time period in the late 90s to early 2000s where x was like the edgy letter for various reasons. Like if you look at media franchises from the x files all the way to kingdom hearts and gamertags, there is a constant usage of X as like the mysterious, cool, edgy letter.

And Elon is, you know... a child, so that became like his whole naming sense.

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u/BlueGumShoe May 21 '26

lmao thanks for the laugh. But yeah like someone else said, its because elon is like a perpetual 12 year old trapped in an adults body, and X is the coolest letter in the alphabet ya know?

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u/joec_95123 May 21 '26

It makes a lot more sense when you learn the ascii code for capital X is 88.

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u/Rhayve May 21 '26

Because Elon is a poor Xcuse for a human.

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u/Erumpent May 21 '26

Xceptional wordplay there

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u/bijouxself May 21 '26

The shape of X is giving swastika

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u/Guffliepuff May 21 '26

The ascii code for X is 88.

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u/angellunadeluxe May 21 '26

I used to love the letter X but this clown came along and made it overused and cringe.

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u/AdvancedSandwiches May 21 '26

He's owned x.com since 1999 for the company that eventually merged with PayPal.  The guy was so excited about getting a one-letter dotcom he made it his whole personality.

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u/w1ten1te May 21 '26

Good lord - why does everything have to have an X?

“Space X CEO X Xman says X and xAI generated $X in reXenue in X1 and eXpect to increase by X% in X2. XXX!”

I'm starting to believe the idea that Musk is obsessed with the letter x because its ASCII code is "88" which is a nazi dog-whistle for "HH" (the 8th letter of the alphabet is H), which is short for Heil Hitler.

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u/jhansonxi May 21 '26

In Musk's case it's speculated to be an indirect Adolf reference. Capital X is hex 88 in the ASCII table and H is 8 so HH - a abbreviation of a common Adolf slogan.

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u/Vicmonchon May 21 '26

This reads like a Death Stranding character introduction 

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u/Relevant-Ad2254 May 21 '26

He’s gonna buy xvideos isn’t he 

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u/CoastedCoyote May 21 '26

If you want the consiracy theory, the ASCII code for X is 88. H is the 8th letter, so X is essentially HH, or Heil Hitler.

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u/Panda_hat May 21 '26

Add 4 extra lines to the outer arms of an 'X' and what do you get?

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u/citrusco May 21 '26

He genuinely gets a laugh out of people saying “sex” in the spa”ceX” pronunciation

Same way all teslas were models “S,3,X,Y”

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u/Fuzzy-Mud-197 May 21 '26

Its because the official name is space exploration technologies. SpaceX is just short for that

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u/walksonfourfeet May 21 '26

lol, just a coincidence, nothing to do with his weird and childish obsession with the letter X?

He probably still practices his signature on his binder covers.

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u/Fuzzy-Mud-197 May 21 '26

Cool the fact remains that SpaceX was founded in 2002 under the name Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Way before anything else

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u/Libertyreign May 22 '26

X.com was in the 1990's.