It's the year 2000.
X and PayPal are fighting over the pay-by-email market. Both are burning cash through user signup offers so fast that a merger becomes inevitable (I'll cover all this in tomorrow's thread).
Musk (X) is REALLY not happy about this merger. He wants to WIN the war between the companies.
Thiel (PayPal) is happy. He HAS won from his perspective. He wants a merger into a super-company as that's where he sees the profit. /2