Peter Thiel thinks Elon Musk is a ‘fraud,’ and 6 other unexpected details about the billionaires' love-hate relationship
Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have worked together for decades, but are polar opposites.
Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have known each other for decades, all the way back to when they combined their respective online banking companies, Paypal and X, in 2002. 1. A source who spoke to both men said that Musk thinks Thiel is"a sociopath," and Thiel considers Musk"a fraud." "The experience shook Thiel," wrote Chafkin,"who came to see Musk as reckless; Musk saw Thiel as a money guy who cared about technology primarily as a means to profit."3. PayPal and X, Elon Musk's own online banking platform, merged in 2000 because Thiel was"terrified of losing the business."
Musk told Chafkin that he eventually decided to forgive Thiel, but implied that he couldn't fully trust him again. Musk originally planned on getting a PhD in physics at Stanford,"but dropped out to start Zip2, a business directory on the web that functioned as an online version of the Yellow Pages." Meanwhile, Thiel studied law, dreaming of a Supreme Court clerkship — but was ultimately rejected after interviews with Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia.
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