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>$300m could buy you a hell of a lot of marketing, no?

a quick google search shown Telegram have 1 billion users worldwide.

>X/xAI/Musk’s brand is toxic

Is it?




> Is it?

Yes.


I know my experience is anecdotal, however, I know at least three people at my workplace who have said in our Slack channel they will never, ever but a Tesla because of Musk's antics while typing it using a Statlink connection.


It sounds like they'll buy an alternative product when one is available. Tesla, X, and xAI all have multiple viable alternatives - superior alternatives even. That's not yet the case for Starlink in many locations[0], but in 5-10 years, your colleague may be using an Amazon Kuiper, One World, Garmin[1], or Apple[1] connection.

0. Symmetric gigabit fiber Internet remains the gold standard, where one can get it, but unfortunately that's not many places.

1. I hope these companies are at least looking into doing these, as it's adjacent to their current products.




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