I don't blame Thiel for literally all of this, but I do feel that VC's have changed from 'this is a pretty well-run business let's fund it because it will probably grow 8% in five years' to 'this batshit insane garbage has a 1% change of completely dominating the market in 2035'.
The start-up that promised pizza's baked in the back of a van without ever baking a pizza in the back of a van got 500 million in VC funds before declaring bankrupcy.
His dad keeps having secret children with his own stepdaughter. His mom is a weird icy model who's strangely attached to her large adult son.
If you told me Musk and his brothers lived in an attic for most of their childhoods, I'd be like, yeah, that tracks.
According to Elon, he was once pushed down some stairs by school bullies but the school did nothing because the head bully came from a more socially prominent family.
And he's a junkie. Special K is a powerful painkiller (both physical and mental) and this makes it addictive. He is reported to be doing Special K "constantly."
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His parents are both VC Andrews characters.
I didn't even think of the Venture Capitalist Andrews pun.
If you told me Musk and his brothers lived in an attic for most of their childhoods, I'd be like, yeah, that tracks.
I think that was his supervillain origin moment.
Being born may have been Elon's villain origin story.