140 Quotes by Ashlee Vance

PayPal staff pioneered techniques in fighting online fraud that have formed the basis of software used by the CIA and FBI to track terrorists and of software used by the world’s largest banks to combat crime. This collection of super-bright employees has become known as the PayPal Mafia – more or less the current ruling class of Silicon Valley – and Musk is its most famous and successful member.

Elon came to the conclusion early in his career that life is short that if you really embrace this, it leaves you with the obvious conclusion that you should be working as hard as you can.

The company would pick a plan of attack, and when it failed at something, it failed fast and then tried a new approach.

And it may well be the case that this is exactly the type of person it takes to make a freaking space Internet real.

These efforts began in earnest on October 18, 2004, and, rather remarkably, four months later, on January 27, 2005, an entirely new kind of car had been built by eighteen people. It could even be driven around.

I think there are probably too many smart people pursuing Internet stuff, finance, and law,” Musk said on the way. “That is part of the reason why we haven’t seen as much innovation.

But there is now a degree to which you have to ask whether his success is an indictment on the rest of us who have been working on much more incremental things. To the extent that the world still doubts Elon, I think it’s a reflection on the insanity of the world and not on the supposed insanity of Elon. – Peter Thiel on Elon Musk.

Every time he’s fired someone and taken their job, he’s delivered on whatever the project was.

My mind is not easily blown, but this place and this guy were amazing,” Downey said. To.