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pompanoJ t1_jd0oyul wrote

Reply to comment by arcosapphire in The SpaceX steamroller has shifted into a higher gear this year by returnofjuju

You do realize he made his first fortune building a payment processing system, right? As in, he is a software guy turned rocket nerd, not the other way around.

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arcosapphire t1_jd0pqf1 wrote

Actually what he founded was x.com, an online bank. It merged with software company Confinity, which had developed the payment processing software that became PayPal. So he was not actually a software developer.

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CMDR_Shazbot t1_jd22zt1 wrote

He developed the software for his first company, zip2. Enough to get the POC off the ground and attract investors and hire additional developers to clean up the code, sell it off, build up X.com, sell it off, and fund SpaceX.

No matter how skilled you think he is at it, he is by definition a self taught software developer, who then learned rocket science through the people around him and his employees. People seem to think spending 20 years around literal rocket scientists who are building things for him doesn't cover what you'd learn in 4 years of university.

People dont seem to realize SpaceX is also a software company.

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Bensemus t1_jd3pdr5 wrote

He worked on the software for both Zip2 and X.com.

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