Most interesting part is below
Musk aggressively railed against her, asking why she had hair on her face (referring to the slight peach fuzz that everyone has, visible under the bright light of the club's awning). "Because I'm a mammal," the girlfriend replied, which only pissed Musk off even more.
"There is a high level of degenerate behavior with Elon," one person who knows Musk told me. "There's a paranoia: Are you with me or against me?" Musk's hyper energy is sometimes uncomfortable to be around, this person added: "I genuinely want to leave the room sometimes when he walks in." And, while he can even come across as a "bully," they noted that Musk is not alone among tech titans in this character trait. "All of these guys, I've spent time with them, Musk, Zuck, all of them; they all exhibit tendencies of total and complete pathological sociopathy. They don't at their core give a flying fuck about you or me as individuals."
They do, however, all seem to give a shit what people think of them. Usually, when the tides of praise turn against someone of such stature, they hire consultants, lobbyists, and public relations firms to get them puff pieces in national news outlets, or they agree to give talks at major tech conferences, as long as the questions are little bitty softballs. Most of these CEOs and tech leaders are so obsessed with their image that they employ armies of communications experts, who help craft their brilliance for all to see. Executives I've covered in Silicon Valley almost always have teams prep them for interviews with long lists of all the possible questions they might be asked, and a long list of highly scrutinized answers. |
