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Our ancestors, sure. But my dad wasn't a rich white guy from apartheid SA who invested in my first company and financed who knows what else. ... you're saying

by Sakos 4y ago

Our ancestors, sure. But my dad wasn't a rich white guy from apartheid SA who invested in my first company and financed who knows what else. ... you're saying it's racist of me to mention he's from an extremely racist system that reserved land and particular careers for members of a particular racial classification? Are you okay? Are you on the right site?

renewiltord 4y ago
> you're saying it's racist of me to mention he's from an extremely racist system that reserved land and particular careers for members of a particular racial classification? What on Earth? Obviously I'm not saying that.
PKop 4y ago
>Our ancestors sure So your lineage won some and lost some yes? What is the point of saying at one time your people benefited from conquest but this other time you didn't? So what? Sounds like cope and sour grapes. He's a successful, wealthy, and accomplished man. That's a good thing. Why would anyone want to be on the losing side of the equation? Are you ok?
Domenic_S 4y ago
Maybe he was rich maybe not, but this is what Elon has to say: > “One thing he [Musk's father] claims is he gave us a whole bunch of money to start, my brother and I, to start up our first company [Zip2, which provided online city guides to newspapers]. This is not true,” Musk says. “He was irrelevant. He paid nothing for college. My brother and I paid for college through scholarships, loans and working two jobs simultaneously. The funding we raised for our first company came from a small group of random angel investors in Silicon Valley.” [0] Errol invested between 20-30k well after Zip2 was on it's way and they closed a huge round weeks after. His father took credit for helping him but the Musk brothers strongly deny it [0], and Elon literally slept in the office and showered in the local YMCA to get off the ground [1] Even Elon's wiki page misreports this, but the Zip2 wiki page has it right. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200817165150/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-the-architect-of-tomorrow-120850/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200817165150/https://www.rolli... [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-of-elon-musk-2016-7#while-zip2-got-off-the-ground-musk-literally-lived-in-the-office-and-showered-at-a-local-ymca-the-hard-work-paid-off-when-compaq-bought-zip2-in-a-deal-worth-341-million-in-cash-and-stock-earningmusk-22-million-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-of-elon-musk-2016-7...

by Sakos 4y ago

renewiltord 4y ago

> you're saying it's racist of me to mention he's from an extremely racist system that reserved land and particular careers for members of a particular racial classification? What on Earth? Obviously I'm not saying that.

PKop 4y ago

>Our ancestors sure So your lineage won some and lost some yes? What is the point of saying at one time your people benefited from conquest but this other time you didn't? So what? Sounds like cope and sour grapes. He's a successful, wealthy, and accomplished man. That's a good thing. Why would anyone want to be on the losing side of the equation? Are you ok?

Domenic_S 4y ago

Maybe he was rich maybe not, but this is what Elon has to say: > “One thing he [Musk's father] claims is he gave us a whole bunch of money to start, my brother and I, to start up our first company [Zip2, which provided online city guides to newspapers]. This is not true,” Musk says. “He was irrelevant. He paid nothing for college. My brother and I paid for college through scholarships, loans and working two jobs simultaneously. The funding we raised for our first company came from a small group of random angel investors in Silicon Valley.” [0] Errol invested between 20-30k well after Zip2 was on it's way and they closed a huge round weeks after. His father took credit for helping him but the Musk brothers strongly deny it [0], and Elon literally slept in the office and showered in the local YMCA to get off the ground [1] Even Elon's wiki page misreports this, but the Zip2 wiki page has it right. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200817165150/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-the-architect-of-tomorrow-120850/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200817165150/https://www.rolli... [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-of-elon-musk-2016-7#while-zip2-got-off-the-ground-musk-literally-lived-in-the-office-and-showered-at-a-local-ymca-the-hard-work-paid-off-when-compaq-bought-zip2-in-a-deal-worth-341-million-in-cash-and-stock-earningmusk-22-million-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-of-elon-musk-2016-7...