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Elon Musk taking delivery of his McLaren F1 shortly after selling Zip2 for $307 million in 1999 (cdn.imgchest.com)
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[–] 83 points 4 months ago (6 children)

In 2000, while driving on Sand Hill Road with PayPal Inc. Co-Founder Peter Thiel to a meeting, a moment of bravado led Musk to demonstrate the car’s capabilities. “Watch this,” he said, moments before the McLaren spun out of control, flew “like a discus” 3 feet into the air and crashed. The worst part? The car wasn’t insured.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-spent-1-million-213715650.html

What a dipshit.

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  • [–] 100 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    The worst part? The car wasn’t insuredThey both survived.

    To think how much shit the world nearly dodged.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    A pivotal moment that crashed our timeline into darkness.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure capitalism would have just made another Nazi the first trillionaire, and collapsed into fascism either way.

    The problem is systemic; continuously rewarding sociopaths and psychopaths with wealth and power.

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