The Bad: ‘Wait, I thought Elon founded Paypal?’ - you might be thinking to yourself.He even beat out his biggest competitor, PayPal, started by Peter Thiel as they agreed to merge together with Elon becoming the largest shareholder. His company, X.com, was more successful than anyone had ever thought possible. At the time people said he was crazy and that consumers would never trust the security of the internet for online banking. The Good: Aside from the McLaren purchase, Elon poured all of his money into his next venture, a company that would change the banking industry.He drove it around so much in the Valley that he started to get a dick reputation. He purchased one of only 62 McLarens (really expensive car) in the world. It’s here we see the first signs of Elon potentially turning into a jerk. The Ugly: Less than a decade after being essentially homeless in Canada, Elon was now Silicon Valley’s latest rich guy.To make matters worse Elon also experienced his first canceled merger catastrophe (#foreshadowing). The investors forced the product towards Media companies as more of a business directory instead of the B2C direction that Musk had hoped. The Bad: While Elon and his brother were able to create a successful company, they had problems with their investors’ powers.It would end up selling for $307 million. Zip2 was basically mapquest before mapquest (which was Google Maps before Google Maps). They made their way to Palo Alto and started their first business. He went to Canada where he stayed for a while - without a permanent home - until his brother met up with him. The Good: He left South Africa on his own without anything or anyone. I don’t know how someone becomes like him.” While Musk talked to the author about most topics, he refused to talk about his father saying “He’s good at making life miserable. It appears that he may have been abusive - maybe not physically but at least mentally.
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