A conversation between Elon Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO, and 21-year-old Pranay Pathole, a Machine Learning Engineer from India, about Musk’s internship days has gone viral on social media.

Pathole tweeted about Tesla CEO being and intern at Nova Scotia to which Musk replied with some interesting facts. The tweet has varied reactions from netizens.

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The Indian engineer wrote, “When @elonmusk was 18 he did an internship at
Nova Scotia bank. It was over there where he realized that money is low
bandwidth and you don’t need huge infrastructure resources to online transfer
money from one bank to another. This knowledge set him up on a course to start
X.com.” The billionaire replied with some interesting
inputs.

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“I worked for Peter Nicholson, who is awesome.
Mostly, we exchanged math riddles, although I did figure out a multi-billion
dollar arbitrage opportunity for the bank,” Musk wrote. He also spoke about
another reason why he decided to leave the organisation and start anew.

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After Musk’s response, Pathole’s tweet was liked by 9,400 users on Twitter. People shared several inspirational quotes,
reactions, and messages about Musk’s journey and how he became one of the richest men
in the world.