1999. ELON MUSK GETS HIS FIRST MILLIONS AND A $1M SUPERCAR... BUT HIS BIGGEST FEAR THAT DAY WASN'T LOSING THE MONEY
7am. a truck stops outside a small apartment and a 27-year-old Musk watches a McLaren F1 roll off the back
"there are 62 McLarens in the world and i will own one of them"
"it's a million dollars for a car. it's decadent"
he'd just sold Zip2 to Compaq for ~$307M. his cut: ~$22M
then he says the line that tells you who he is:
"just 3 years ago i was showering at the Y and sleeping on the office floor"
his fiancée Justine is standing right next to him. a new millionaire with a new supercar. and this is what he's worried about:
"my fear is that we become spoiled brats. that we lose a sense of appreciation and perspective"
he knew exactly what the money could buy:
"i could go and buy one of the islands in the bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom"
"i'm much more interested in trying to build and create a new company"
and he meant it. he put "the great majority" of his net worth into https://t.co/ZQ6M6yThnU, an online bank almost nobody believed in
his own words:
"it's sort of like a series of poker games"
"i haven't gone and taken my winnings... i've just put almost all of it back into the new game"
https://t.co/ZQ6M6yThnU became paypal. paypal turned into ~$180M. the $180M went into spacex and tesla. you know the rest
and the car? a year later, Peter Thiel in the passenger seat, on the way to pitch Sequoia. Musk floors it. the F1 spins and goes airborne. no insurance. both walk away
napkin math:
the toy: $1M in 1999. F1s now sell for $20M+. ~20x
the chips he pushed back on the table: ~$22M. today: hundreds of billions. four more zeros
the island: still just an island
the only time he ever cashed out, he bought a car. everything else went back into the game
26 years later the richest man alive sleeps in an airstream. the 27-year-old who was scared of becoming a spoiled brat never let it happen
Remember when Elon Musk was laughed at in 2018 for the idea behind the Tesla Roadster?
Even Joe Rogan couldn’t believe it.
Fast-forward to today, and it’s becoming reality.
AOC is looking dead into the camera and essentially telling people not to believe their lying eyes..
She’s either delusional or manipulative. Neither one is good. This is why I don’t trust these people.
While we were asleep, Elon Musk launched a flying car, the new Tesla Roadster!
It doesn’t have wings like an airplane or rotor blades like a helicopter. It uses thrust from high pressure compressed air thrusters (SpaceX tech), just like a rocket or spaceship, to take off and maneuver.
It goes from 0 to 60 mph (0–97 km/h) in about 0.8 seconds.
Elon said the top speed should exceed 0.5 Mach (half the speed of sound, roughly 380+ mph/over 600 km/h).
Production is set to start in 2028.
Tesla invited a live audience to the unveiling so people wouldn’t dismiss the stunts as AI. The car performed wild moves: driving upside down on a ramp (using a suction system), flipping and hovering in the air, jumping over other Teslas, and landing cleanly….
HOLY S'HT 🚨
Only 30% of the 42M on EBT are Americans who were born here
51% are Muslim who won't allow their wives to work, and have multiple wives with multiple children, getting $4K to $5K each
This is unsustainable, It's time for DOGE to do an audit of EBT, who's with me
He crashed a million-dollar car he never insured, then told the friend sitting next to him he thought it would never happen to him.
“Watch this.”
That’s what Elon Musk said right before he lost control of his own McLaren F1.
His name is Elon Musk. The year was 2000. He’d just pocketed $22 million selling his first company, Zip2, and used $1 million of it on one of only 106 McLaren F1s ever built. He was driving Peter Thiel to pitch Sequoia Capital for what would become PayPal when Thiel asked what the car could do.
Musk floored it. The F1 had 640 horsepower, weighed barely a ton, and had zero traction control. The back end snapped out instantly, spun the car backward into an embankment, and launched it into the air spinning like a discus.
Both men walked away unhurt. The car didn’t. According to Thiel, Musk’s first words afterward were that he’d read plenty of stories about guys who made money, bought a supercar, and crashed it, and figured it would never happen to him, which is also why he never bought insurance.
They hitchhiked separately to the meeting instead of showing up together.
Honestly, the detail that stays with me isn’t the crash, it’s that he still made the pitch meeting that same day, uninsured wreck and all, like the car was just a line item he’d deal with later.
Would you have skipped insurance on a million-dollar car too, or is that exactly the kind of bet that only looks smart once you’re already a billionaire?
BAD GIRL, BAD GIRL, what you gonna do when they come for you? 😂
@IlhanMN you laughed and celebrated when the FBI raided President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump’s home . But now that you’re the one getting raided, suddenly you want to cry and play the victim?
In my opinion, you are a Somalian scammer, you are a fraud, and you are one of the most corrupt politicians in America!
You had no sympathy for President Trump, so don’t expect everyone to suddenly have sympathy for you.
You are not above the law Ilhan Omar
Metallica's James Hetfield BLASTS other celebrities who push their political opinions on fans
“Metallica is not here like some other entertainers to influence you with their bullshit” 🔥
Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, The Beach Boys, and more all held concerts at this same arena.
None had a crowd as large as President Trump's last night.
God is using Trump to save America.