(2007-04-13) Elon Musk

I was reading about Elon Musk. Though he is only 35, Mr Musk has already made surprising progress toward the three modest goals he set for himself when at college: to transform the internet, make a breakthrough in Clean Energy and propel mankind towards inter-planetary travel. He arrived at Stanford University intending to do a doctorate on batteries for electric cars, but dropped out to jump on the internet bandwagon. He struck gold when he sold PayPal, the online payments firm, to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002.

There's some question as to how well he gets along with Peter Thiel and Max Levchin.

• he gives long history of PayPal, focusing on his contribution

• note reference to the PayPalWars see 2005-09-12-[[PayPalWars]]

• I'm pretty sure that Max Levchin didn't mention Musk at all in his section of Founders At Work, though he mentioned Peter. Though that could be explained by those 2 having an earlier relationship.

• Do the PayPal folks get along with their EBay acquirers?