Elon Musk Envisions X Replacing YouTube, LinkedIn and Tinder: Leaked Meeting

X’s Elon Musk talks about several new X features on leaked call. Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images At the X all-hands meeting last week (Oct. 26), owner Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino listed all of the features they plan to offer on X (formerly Twitter) to make it an “everything app,” from banking and hiring services to 4K livestream capabilities. The X executives said they would start to broadcast these internal meetings to the public every quarter via livestream. According to a transcript of the meeting published by The Verge yesterday (Oct. 31), Musk and Yaccarino mentioned YouTube, LinkedIn, and PayPal—which originated from Musk’s fintech startup, X.com in the 1990s—among the competitors they’d like to replace. Outside competing with social networking sites and financial services, Musk also talked about X’s new audio and video call capabilities and encrypted direct messaging, all made to replace FaceTime and Signal.  Here are the top takeaways from the all-hands: Turning X into an online bank comes from Musk’s vision for PayPal more than 20 years ago. Musk said his plans for X.com, the precursor of PayPal, weren’t fulfilled when he sold the company to eBay in 2002. X.com was an online bank cofounded by
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