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The guy ran off on his wife with a 24-year-old actress. A wife who helped him raise 5 kids and who stood by him through thick and thin when he was building com
by ZachPruckowski 16y ago
The guy ran off on his wife with a 24-year-old actress. A wife who helped him raise 5 kids and who stood by him through thick and thin when he was building companies like PayPal and Tesla and SpaceX (they met in college). I don't have a lot of sympathy for someone who pulls something like that and doesn't expect to take a hit in the pocketbook for it.
- gwern 16y agoYou read too shallowly. Wikipedia says she met him in college, not that they married there. In point of fact, they married in 2000, sometime around March. By 2000, Musk had already helped found and sell Zip2; Paypal had already been founded and in just 2 years would grow to the point Ebay would buy it for 1.5 billion; immediately on selling, 1/3rd of the way through the marriage, Musk founds SpaceX; halfway through the marriage, he founds Tesla and a bit after that SolarCity. (I too have little sympathy, but rather for someone who married a millionaire, signing a prenup (which no one has demonstrated to be unfair or stingy), and now expects to break it when the stakes have gone way up.)