The wealthy surfer/land grabber is looking for a buyer.

Despite them hating each other, and everything else going on his world, the celebrity CEO sees it as a perfect vehicle for what he wants to do and for messaging.

Plus, he has a partner he has worked with before in the payment processing industry who sees big political possibilities and a way to reshape the world.

Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook aka Meta

Elon Musk

Partner he has worked with before: Peter Thiel

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How Elon Musk and Peter Thiel almost died in a 2000 car crash

It was March 2000, one year after the 28-year-old Musk sold his first start-up for $22 million. He’d dropped $1 million of it on the silver sports car, then pumped most of the rest into a grandiose business scheme: X.com, an internet-based megabank that aimed to remake the global financial system.

But his plans had been blocked by Confinity, a company led by Thiel. The two were about to discuss a “shotgun marriage” merger to end their destructive competition. Musk, pulling rank, had offered Thiel a lift. “I didn’t really know how to drive the car,” he tells author Jimmy Soni in “The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley” (Simon & Schuster), out now.

Musk gunned the McLaren’s gold-plated engine. The force was more than he could handle. The car spun out on the busy Silicon Valley road, hit an embankment, went airborne and smashed on the roadside. Glass shattered, tires burst and the vehicle’s suspension snapped.

The crash could have killed both men and also destroyed PayPal — the company that revolutionized e-commerce and gave rise to YouTube, LinkedIn, Yelp, Tesla and SpaceX — before it even began.

But miraculously, Thiel and Musk were unhurt. They dusted themselves off, stuck out their thumbs and hitchhiked off to change internet history. – Source

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