The Engineer

Joining the Mafia 97 After the burst of the dot.com bubble, those who knew Elon had founded an Internet company asked his wife, ...

Joining the Mafia 98 along the way.”^263 Compared with the birth of Zip2, the largest difference now was that a venture capitali ...

Joining the Mafia 99 funds, and similar assets. If the recipient didn’t have an X.com account, the system automatically sent an ...

Joining the Mafia 100 to anyone who opened an account, and members who referred new customers were awarded $10 for each referral ...

Joining the Mafia 101 come up with new ideas, he took a random lecture at the Stanford University. The subject was “The link bet ...

Joining the Mafia 102 company. He didn’t want to be the CEO himself because he wanted to develop software and recruit programmer ...

Joining the Mafia 103 possible to store passwords and other secrets in the Palm Pilot. This idea got some attention, but they de ...

Joining the Mafia 104 Several years earlier, in 1995, Pierre Omidyar created the website AuctionWeb. It was his hobby project wh ...

Joining the Mafia 105 cause both companies were interested in the eBay users. In 1999, the two companies merged with each other. ...

Joining the Mafia 106 billion.^189 They kept the name X.com, but would later change it to PayPal because people associated X.com ...

Joining the Mafia 107 Jeremy Stoppelman was one of them. He worked as an engineer at PayPal, and would later found the company Y ...

Joining the Mafia 108 could recover some money or if they had to alert the FBI.186,189 One of these algorithms was IGOR, named a ...

Joining the Mafia 109 though other sources says he travelled to Australia to watch the Sydney Olympic Games, which would be his ...

Joining the Mafia 110 on many of the ways you do things. Come to Palo Alto for a visit sometime and learn something. I think you ...

Joining the Mafia 111 that. I’m pro-human. I’m also an investor in Peter’s hedge fund.”259,260 Levchin agreed that he and Elon w ...

Joining the Mafia 112 his McLaren F1 wasn’t fast enough, and he didn’t want to buy a group of islands, so he decided to buy a bl ...

I Don’t Need These Russians. Elon and his former housemate Adeo Ressi went on a trip to Long Island, just outside of New York. R ...

I Don’t Need These Russians 114 was some kind of mistake,” Elon said. “I expected to find that they were well on their way and t ...

I Don’t Need These Russians 115 tially lethal rockets and pay the money needed? “My theory was to apply the majority of my effor ...

I Don’t Need These Russians 116 found investors who also were critical to NASA’s abilities to bring humans to Mars.^4 The idea b ...