Sammya Mukhopadhyay

New York, NY, USA

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and soon-to-be owner of social media giant Twitter, tweeted Wednesday that he can no longer vote for Democrats and will vote Republican. “In the past, I voted Democrat because they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican. Now, watch their dirty tricks against me unfold,” he tweeted. ,Musk, whose politics has been consistently confounding, has been on an attack on the Democrats for a while. Therefore, his decision to not vote for Democrats hardly comes as a surprise. A vocal critic of President Joe Biden, Musk is anti-union and against the imposition of a billionaire tax. Also Read | Elon Musk to vote Republican, but insists he is not 'right wing',Elon Musk has also been critical of Twitter for its ‘left wing bias’. Speaking at the All In Summit in Miami on Monday, Musk said, “I would classify myself as a moderate, neither Republican of Democrat. In fact, I have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats historically. Overwhelmingly. I might never have voted Republican. Now, this election? I will.” ,The 50-year-old billionaire who calls himself a “free-speech absolutist” acquired Twitter as what he says is a “moderate takeover” and not a right-wing takeover, but then went on to slam Democrats. “The Democratic party is overly controlled by the unions and the trial lawyers, particularly the class-action lawyers.”,Also Read | Knowing Elon Musk beyond the Twitter drama,Musk has had frequent Twitter confrontations with Democrats. About Biden, Musk had once said the real president is one who controls the teleprompter. ,Recently, Musk and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aka AOC, quarrelled on Twitter. AOC, D-NY, had tweeted: “Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him special.” ,To this, Musk wrote: “Stop hitting on me, I am really shy.” But AOC clapped back saying, “I was talking about Zuckerberg, but ok.”

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<ul>
 <li>Elon Musk tweeted that he will vote Republican</li>
 <li>Musk called the Democrats a party of ‘division &amp; hate’</li>
 <li>The Tesla CEO had earlier slammed Twitter for left wing bias</li>
</ul>

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Why Elon Musk ‘can no longer support Democrats’

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Shuvrajit Das Biswas

Texas City, TX, USA

In March 2000, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, who eventually co-founded PayPal, survived a car crash that could have nearly killed them both, author Jimmy Soni writes in “The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley”. ,Musk, who was 28 years old at the time, had sold his first venture for $22 million and invested a million of that on a McLaren F1. The rest went into X.com, the internet-based megabank, which aimed to reshape the global financial system. However, Musk was in direct conflict with Confinity, Thiel's company. The shotgun merger was for mutual benefit and Musk had decided to pull rank and offer Thiel a ride. ,Also Read | Elon Musk reveals first SpaceX Starship orbital flight's possible timeline,However, he didn't know how to drive the car, Soni writes, and the Tesla and SpaceX CEO turned on the engine. The car's speed was more than he could handle and it spun out on a busy Silicon Valley road before hitting an embankment, going airborne and smashing on the roadside. The glass was shattered, the tires burst and the suspension had snapped as well. ,Though both men could have died, they emerged unhurt and hitchhiked their way. ,However, the actual partnership between Musk and Thiel was filled with other hurdles, as the book details. Not only did Musk want PayPal to come under the banner of his company, but even wanted to restructure the original code by Max Levchin. ,Also Read | Elon Musk turns Elona after Twitter kerfuffle with Chechen head,A furious Levchin staged a coup during Musk's honeymoon in Australia. He along with Thiel ousted Musk from the board. However, the entrepreneur retained his original stake in the company, thus profiting handsomely when PayPal went public in 2002. The money from this IPO helped Musk launch SpaceX. ,Thiel and Musk are now on good terms with the former telling Soni I’d achieved liftoff with Elon but not in a rocket.

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<ul>
 <li>In March 2000, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel survived a near-fatal car crash&nbsp;</li>
 <li>Musk worked with Thiel on PayPal, until the former was ousted</li>
 <li>The two are on good terms now</li>
</ul>

How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel nearly died in a 2000 car crash

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World

Yash Sadhak Shrivastava

Elon Musk is frequently in the headlines for his controversial tweets and constructive ideas. Musk is a serial investor and entrepreneur who is most recognized for his role at Tesla. Also Read| Twitter CEO cautions users while responding to Elon Musk's edit button poll,Some of his investments haven't exactly worked out, but many have prospered and are now among the most fascinating names in technology, as with any long-term investor. Here are just a few of the companies in which Elon Musk has invested. Also Read| Do you want an edit button? asks Elon Musk, Twitter’s new largest shareholder,Twitter,Elon Musk has paid $44 billion for Twitter. The agreement comes about a month after the Tesla and SpaceX chief made public his almost 9% stake in Twitter, making him the microblogging site's single largest individual shareholder. Following this, Musk was invited to join Twitter's board of directors, which he rejected. He announced his proposal to purchase Twitter a few days later, according to a filing with the US markets regulator Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Twitter agreed to sell itself to Musk for $54.20 a share, a 38% premium over the company’s share price this month before he revealed he was the firm’s single largest shareholder. Twitter will become a privately held firm once the acquisition is completed, which is scheduled to happen this year. Also Read| Business Highlights: Musk's Tesla stake, Africa renewables,SpaceX,SpaceX is a designer, manufacturer and launcher of the world’s most advanced rockets and spacecraft. It all started in 2001 when Musk began his project “Mars Oasis” which made the possibility of colonizing Mars real, the idea really ignited the public imagination. The Mars-bound rocket that Musk needed cost $65 million which was way over budget and so he decided to build one himself. The idea of building rockets in-house is what led to the creation of SpaceX in 2002. Falcon 1 was the first rocket built by SpaceX which after 3 failed attempts succeeded in 2008. The real reason behind SpaceX’s success is its cost-effective projects. NASA calculated how much it would cost them to do the same project and SpaceX had been able to do it 5 times cheaper. Till now SpaceX has successfully launched many satellites, and there have been plans made to take Maezawa Yusaku, a Japanese businessman, as well as some artists to Moon in 2023. Elon Musk even plans on launching people to inhabit Mars around 2025. Also Read| Twitter, Hertz rise; Starbucks, Alnylam fall,Tesla,Tesla is an electric vehicle manufacturer with its mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy through increasingly affordable electric vehicles in addition to renewable energy generation and storage. Tesla was founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in 2003 and Elon Musk joined Tesla in 2004, after investing $6.3 million in Tesla stocks and was appointed to the position of Chairman of its Board of Directors. In October 2008, Musk took over as CEO of the company and co-founders Eberhard and Tarpenning left Tesla entirely. Under Musk, Tesla has also constructed multiple lithium-ion batteries and electric vehicle subassembly factories, such as Gigafactory 1 in Nevada and Gigafactory 3 in China. Also Read| Musk takes 9.2% stake in Twitter,Hyperloop,Hyperloop is a concept developed by Space X and Tesla founder Elon Musk for ultra-fast inter-city travel in 2013. Using travel pods inside metallic tubes, he calls it a “fifth mode” of transport in addition to cars, planes, boats, and trains. The Hyperloop is a high-speed commuter and freight transport system that could reach speeds of around 750 mph (1,210 kph). It works by propelling specially designed pressurized pods or capsules using electromagnetic force inside a near-vacuum tube to reduce air friction and drag. Also Read| Elon Musk holds 9.2% passive stake in Twitter, SEC filing shows,OpenAI,OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and others, who collectively pledged the US $1 billion in December 2015. Musk resigned from the company’s board in February 2018 but remains one of its top donors. OpenAI seeks to build a machine with human intelligence while prioritizing transparency and safety. In June 2020, the lab released its first commercial product. The tool, dubbed “the API,” allows businesses to directly access OpenAI’s powerful general-purpose text generation AI, which has been trained on trillions of words from the internet. The lab had initially been wary of publishing the full version of the text generation AI, as it could be misused. Also Read| Tesla sells 310,000 vehicles in 1Q, despite logistics issues,Neuralink,Neuralink Corporation was started by Elon Musk and his 8 partners Ben Rapoport, Dongjin Seo, Max Hodak, Paul Merolla, Philip Sabes, Tim Gardner, Tim Hanson and Vanessa Tolosa in July 2016 and is developing an implantable brain-machine interface. The company has hired several high-profile neuroscientists from various universities and is developing a device that consists of a tiny probe containing more than 3,000 electrodes attached to flexible threads thinner than a human hair, which can monitor the activity of 1,000 brain neurons. Also Read| Elon Musk quotes Eminem against SEC demand that Tesla lawyers vet tweets,The Boring Company,In December 2016, Musk founded The Boring Company after growing frustrated with traffic in Los Angeles and the limitations of two-dimensional transportation networks. The start-up aims to create subterranean tunnels that allow pedestrians, freight, utilities, or autonomous electric vehicles to circumvent traffic on surface roads to more directly get from A to B. Also Read| EXPLAINER: How would billionaire income tax work?,DeepMind Technologies,The artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepMind Technologies was launched in late 2010, with Musk as one of its key angel investors. In January 2014, Google announced that it had acquired the company for an undisclosed amount. Also Read| Elon Musk hints at new social media platform in cryptic tweet,Solar City,Musk, as Tesla's CEO, is well-known for his support of environmental and sustainable issues. As a result Musk's Tesla purchased Solar city in 2016. This caused legal issues for Musk, who is presently in court defending the transaction, which was believed to unfairly enrich family members. Also Read| How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel nearly died in a 2000 car crash,X.com now PayPal,In 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, online financial services and e-mail payment company. X.com merged with Confinity, which at the time operated a little-known money transfer service called PayPal. Confinity was co-founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin. The entire company was rebranded as PayPal in 2001, a year after Musk left the company over disagreements with other executive members. But PayPal later went public and got scooped up by eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. Also Read| Elon Musk reveals first SpaceX Starship orbital flight's possible timeline,Zip2,Zip2 was the first enterprise founded by Elon Musk in the year 1995 with his brother Kimbal, and Greg Kouri. It provided a searchable business directory that could be described as an Internet version of the yellow pages telephone directory with maps included. Musk described the company’s mission by saying that everyone ought to be able to find the closest pizza parlour and to be able to figure out how to get there. In 1996 Davidow Ventures invested around $3 Million in exchange for majority ownership. In addition, Musk was replaced as CEO by a more experienced businessman, Richard Sorkin, but remained executive vice president and chief technology officer. Later because of Musk’s pressure as he disagreed with Sorkin’s business policies, Sorkin was replaced by Derek Proudian. Later In 1999, Compaq Computer Corp. purchased Zip2 for $307 million, and Zip2 became a unit of the search engine AltaVista. Also Read| Elon Musk, James Franco among witnesses for Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial,Video Arcade,At the age of 16, Elon with his brother Kimbal tried of opening an arcade but their plans were foiled when the city told them they were too young to get a real estate permit without an adult to sign off. Also Read| Is Elon Musk Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive founder of bitcoin?,Blastar,Elon Musk’s first-ever creation was “Blastar” a science fiction inspired space game. He built it in 1984 at the age of 12 and got $500 after a South African trade publication ‘PC and Office Technology magazine’ published its source code. Also Read| Elon Musk turns Elona after Twitter kerfuffle with Chechen head,Easter Egg,In an interview, Kimbal Musk revealed that Elon with his siblings travelled around the wealthy parts of the South African capital selling homemade chocolate Easter eggs. The production cost was 50 cents and they charged $10 per easter egg.

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This caused legal issues for Musk, who is presently in court defending the transaction, which was believed to unfairly enrich family members.\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"Also Read|&nbsp;<a href=\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/how-elon-musk-peter-thiel-nearly-died-in-a-2000-car-crash\\\">How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel nearly died in a 2000 car crash</a>\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"X.com now PayPal\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"In 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, online financial services and e-mail payment company. X.com merged with Confinity, which at the time operated a little-known money transfer service called <a href=\\\"https://opoyi.com/topic/paypal\\\">PayPal</a>. Confinity was co-founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin. The entire company was rebranded as PayPal in 2001, a year after Musk left the company over disagreements with other executive members. But PayPal later went public and got scooped up by eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002.\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"Also Read|&nbsp;<a href=\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/elon-musk-reveals-first-spacex-starship-orbital-flights-possible-timeline\\\">Elon Musk reveals first SpaceX Starship orbital flight's possible timeline</a>\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"Zip2\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"Zip2 was the first enterprise founded by Elon Musk in the year 1995 with his brother Kimbal, and Greg Kouri. It provided a searchable business directory that could be described as an Internet version of the yellow pages telephone directory with maps included. Musk described the company’s mission by saying that everyone ought to be able to find the closest pizza parlour and to be able to figure out how to get there. In 1996 Davidow Ventures invested around $3 Million in exchange for majority ownership. In addition, Musk was replaced as CEO by a more experienced businessman, Richard Sorkin, but remained executive vice president and chief technology officer. Later because of Musk’s pressure as he disagreed with Sorkin’s business policies, Sorkin was replaced by Derek Proudian. Later In 1999, Compaq Computer Corp. purchased Zip2 for $307 million, and Zip2 became a unit of the search engine AltaVista.\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"Also Read|&nbsp;<a href=\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/elon-musk-james-franco-among-witnesses-for-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial\\\">Elon Musk, James Franco among witnesses for Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial</a>\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"Video Arcade\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"At the age of 16, Elon with his brother Kimbal tried of opening an arcade but their plans were foiled when the city told them they were too young to get a real estate permit without an adult to sign off.\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"Also Read|&nbsp;<a href=\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/is-elon-musk-satoshi-nakamoto-the-elusive-founder-of-bitcoin\\\">Is Elon Musk Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive founder of bitcoin?</a>\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"Blastar\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"Elon Musk’s first-ever creation was “Blastar” a science fiction inspired space game. He built it in 1984 at the age of 12 and got $500 after a South African trade publication ‘PC and Office Technology magazine’ published its source code.\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"Also Read|&nbsp;<a href=\\\"https://opoyi.com/english/elon-musk-turns-elona-after-twitter-kerfuffle-with-chechen-head\\\">Elon Musk turns Elona after Twitter kerfuffle with Chechen head</a>\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"Easter Egg\"}},{\"type\":\"paragraph\",\"data\":{\"text\":\"In an interview, Kimbal Musk revealed that Elon with his siblings travelled around the wealthy parts of the South African capital selling homemade chocolate Easter eggs. The production cost was 50 cents and they charged $10 per easter egg.\"}}]}

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 <li>Elon Musk has purchased the micro-blogging website Twitter Inc</li>
 <li>He joined Tesla in 2004, after investing $6.3 million in Tesla stocks</li>
 <li>The idea of building rockets in-house is what led to the creation of SpaceX in 2002</li>
</ul>

SpaceX, Tesla and now Twitter: The many businesses of Elon Musk

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New Delhi, Feb 18 (PTI) Mapping the trailblazing story of multinational digital-payments company PayPal, a new book sheds light on how a scrappy start-up turned into one of the most successful companies of all time, worth over USD 70 billion today.The Founders, written by author Jimmy Soni, offers colourful anecdotes about perennially popular figures like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel with the gripping true story of how PayPal reimagined the digital age. It will hit the stands on February 24. Based on original research and rare interviews with Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and others, the book, published by Atlantic Books, claims to contain juicy details not yet made public.Modern technology tales are usually told as stories of individual achievement—more 'genius' than 'scenius'. Jobs is inseparable from the Apple narrative, as is Bezos from Amazon, Gates from Microsoft, or Zuckerberg from Facebook. PayPal's success is a story of a different kind.There is no single hero or heroine. At different moments in the company's history, various team members produced critical, company-saving breakthroughs; remove any one of them, and it's possible that the whole thing would have collapsed, wrote Soni in his introduction of the book.Through the story of PayPal, Soni chronicles the birth of the modern internet and the billionaires, also called 'PayPal Mafias', who have gone on to dominate Silicon Valley in this page-turning and revealing volume.Out of PayPal's ranks have come three billionaires and dozens of multi-millionaires, including household names like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman. PayPal's alumni have built, funded and advised almost all of the billion-dollar-plus companies to emerge from Silicon Valley in the past two decades.According to the publishers, full of fascinating characters and anecdotes about Silcon Valley's biggest titans, The Founders also shows how its founders continue to shape our future today.Today, every online video you watch and every internet purchase you make bears PayPal's fingerprints - its inventions made the modern internet possible and are embedded in our social networks, our banks and our intelligence agencies, they added.Sonni, who has worked for the New York Observer, the Washington Examiner and HuffPost, is also the co-author of Rome's Last Citizen and A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age.

'The Founders': Book tells story behind making of tech giant PayPal

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Peter Thiel is leaving the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta, the company said on Monday, adding that he will stay on until the company's next shareholder meeting later this year, where he will not stand for reelection. Peter is truly an original thinker who you can bring your hardest problems and get unique suggestions, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement. “He has served on our board for almost two decades, and we’ve always known that at some point he would devote his time to other interests.”,Also Read: Amazon sees big surge in value a day after Meta saw record loss,In a statement, Thiel said It has been a privilege to work with one of the great entrepreneurs of our time. Mark Zuckerberg’s intelligence, energy, and conscientiousness are tremendous. Also Read: Mark Zuckerberg's net worth slumps as Meta share value drops,Who is Peter Thiel?,Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to former President Donald Trump. He joined Facebook's board in 2005, a year after the company was founded. He, however, has been an increasingly polarising figure among the company's directors due to his conservative politics. Also Read: Diem was a waste of time, Meta should’ve focused on Bitcoin: Jack Dorsey,The 54-year-old also cofounded PayPal, led the company as CEO, and took it public. He also serves as a chairman at Palantir Technologies. He has provided early funding for companies such as LinkedIn and Yelp. Thiel is a partner at Founders Fund, which is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has funded companies like SpaceX and Airbnb. ,The New York Times and Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources close to Thiel, said after leaving Meta, he will focus on influencing November’s midterm elections and support candidates who would further Trump's agenda. With inputs from the Associated Press

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Vaishnavi Vaidyanathan

<ul>
 <li>Peter Thiel is leaving the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta</li>
 <li>He will stay on until the company's next shareholder meeting later</li>
 <li>He will not stand for reelection</li>
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Who is Peter Thiel?

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Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to former President Donald Trump, is leaving the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta. The company said Monday that Thiel will stay on until Meta’s next shareholder meeting later this year, where he will not stand for reelection. Also read: Mark Zuckerberg's net worth slumps as Meta share value drops,Thiel joined Facebook's board in 2005, a year after the company was founded and seven years before its made its debut on Wall Street. But he has been an increasingly polarizing figure among the company's directors due to his conservative politics. “Peter is truly an original thinker who you can bring your hardest problems and get unique suggestions, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement. “He has served on our board for almost two decades, and we’ve always known that at some point he would devote his time to other interests.”,Also read: Stocks fall as Facebook parent company Meta plummets 26%,Meta Platforms Inc. did not say what Thiel planned to do after his director stint is over. But reports in The New York Times and Bloomberg, citing unnamed sources close to Thiel, said he wants to focus on influencing November’s midterm elections and support candidates who would further Trump's agenda. A representative for Thiel did not immediately return a message seeking comment. Also read: Amazon sees big surge in value a day after Meta saw record loss,In a statement, Thiel said “It has been a privilege to work with one of the great entrepreneurs of our time. Mark Zuckerberg’s intelligence, energy, and conscientiousness are tremendous.”

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<ul>
 <li>Peter Thiel is leaving the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta</li>
 <li>He is a Silicon Valley billionaire and advisor to former President Donald Trump</li>
 <li>The company said Monday that Thiel will stay on until Meta’s next shareholder meeting later this year, where he will not stand for reelection</li>
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