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ELON MUSK: “They modeled Iron Man in the movies after me." (x.com)

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ELON MUSK: “They modeled Iron Man in the movies after me. Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau met with me and toured SpaceX.”

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[–] GenXen@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The book "Founders at Work" features an interview with Max Levchin in which he describes how Musk wanted to switch the PayPal infrastructure from Unix to Windows NT was published in 2008, and they didn't even feel it necessary to include his name, he's only alluded to as "the guy who ran X [who] became CEO".

[–] djsaskdja@reddthat.com 8 points 3 days ago

Impressive that he was still an idiot all the way back in 2008.