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No. I interacted with him on two occasions during the PayPal days. They were pitching PayPal as a payment mechanism for a bunch of our verticals. Even back then he was weird, awkward, and cringe. I think there is video of him back then taking possession of a McLaren and you can see how cringe he was.

EDIT: Found it.. On rewatch, it doesn’t really show how insufferable he was in person. It’s funny to see how x.com gets recycled though.

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Holy receding hairline, Batman!

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Nothing money couldn’t fix apparently.

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I don’t understand people buying such high-end toys and not bothering to pay for some training.

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Seriously. Racing school was fun and only $1,500! Yeah that was serious money for me, but I thought it was a good investment/ birthday present. For him though… That’s like a quarter.

Uninsured is also just strange. Even if I bought a junked supercar, rebuilt the thing myself, and didn’t care if I wrecked it, I’d still insure the thing.

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Lol i love how he called it X .com way back then and they renamed it to paypal.

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I was thinking he wrecked his F1 but I think that was Rowan Atkinson…

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According to another comment Musk wrecked his McLaren but so did Atkinson (twice!).

It’s like crazy high-performance sports cars are hard to drive.

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I won a competition to drive a Ferrari F458 on a track. It was dope but it took me several tries to even pull away cleanly (this is after an hour long lesson about the track and 30min hands on with the car).

One of the Ferrari guys took it and warmed it up for me after which it behaved much better but it’s a long story to say that I can see an inexperienced driver screwing up badly in a super car especially when cold.

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That’s not just a McLaren, that’s probably the most famous McLaren of all time.

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Some prophetic words from the finance there.

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