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Posted on 09/11/2009 6:56:23 PM PDT by KevinDavis
When Jon Favreau, director of the Marvel (MVL) superhero film Iron Man, needed a corporate executive for actor Robert Downey Jr. to use as a role model for the flick's hero Tony Stark, he sought out Elon Musk. Like the fictional Stark, an engineering genius who runs a weaponry company and designs many of its armaments, the 38-year-old Musk is the CEO of a company—two, in fact—while serving as the top technologist for both. The two tech execs even tool around in flashy cars: Stark in a superpowered Audi, Musk in a $109,000 electric sports car that was the first vehicle off the assembly line at Tesla Motors, one of his two companies.
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$109k for a Tesla, eh? Guess the silver one I passed by last wkend here in Ventura county (with a license plate that expressed the thought farewell to OPEC) isn’t exactly a common sight!
Elon Musk is one of the founders of PayPal.
He made a mountain of money when eBay purchased PayPal a number of years ago.
Elon Musk and SpaceX are doing some exciting work. But sadly . . . I don’t think chemical rockets will be good for much more than getting us back to the moon and at the very outset Mars.
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