Elon Musk is a business magnate and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; angel investor, CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; and co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI. With an estimated net worth of around 242 billion USD as of July 25, 2022. According to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes’ real-time billionaires’ list. Musk is the wealthiest person in the world.
Peter Thiel, on the other hand, is a German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. As of May 2022, Thiel had an estimated net worth of 7.19 billion USD and was ranked 297th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Are Elon Musk and Peter Thiel friends?
Peter Thiel and Elon Musk have known each other for decades, all the way back to when they combined their respective online banking companies, Paypal and X, in 2002. Musk was the Chief Executive Officer of PayPal.
While Musk was on his a two weeks vacation and honeymoon with his wife, Thiel and his allies conspired and replaced Musk as PayPal CEO. Since then, their relationship has seen plenty of ups and downs.
A source who spoke to both men said that Musk thinks Thiel is “a sociopath,” (a person with an antisocial personality disorder) and Thiel considers Musk “a fraud.”
