Elon Musk

“He was gonna, he's, you know, said right out of the gate, oh, we're gonna take down Visa and MasterCard.”

“And it's kind of a funny question of what would have happened if Elon had responded faster. I probably would have gone to SpaceX just because, I don't know, hedge fund versus rocket ship company. I might be tempted by the rocket ship company for the summer.”

“I know we got a call once from Elon Musk's team to put Supergoop into all of his roadsters that were taking a press tour down the BCH or something”

“He has an engineer's mindset. So for an engineer, which I certainly am, it's a great person to agree or disagree with because it's always rational.”

“And then you merge, and it's a fifty-fifty merger, which means just no one knows who won. And that's, by the way, sort of the root of all complexity at paypalx.com story is that because we sort of settled on this, well, there's not really a senior partner. Equ…”

“The world is not in technical terms, a state function, meaning in a state function, if something should exist, it becomes that just because the world should be electric does not make it electric. The world is a path function. I mean, I think about like an alte…”

“I was pitching him the idea of this book, but Elon said, I don't know about the book. Maybe, but would you be interested in a job at Tesla?”

“And he responded by getting Chris on a call and saying to him, well, how about Twitter acquire Substack, and you, I'm looking for a CEO to run the company.”