https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a16681/elon-musk-interview-1212/

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    More amazing tidbits

    We wound up literally having an Alcoholics Anonymous — style intervention where I flew in people to Los Angeles and we all sat around a room and said, 'Elon, you cannot start a launch company. This is stupid.'

    He shares his superpower not with Tony Stark but rather with Donald Trump — the ability to carry debt.

    In 2002, he had started a rocket company without bothering to tell his wife that he was starting a rocket company — he left that to Adeo Ressi.

    Musk has not only spent almost $1.5 million on Washington lobbyists over the last two years; he maintains what an official with close ties to NASA calls a "symbiotic" relationship with Lori Garver, a former commercial-space advocate who advised the Obama campaign and who now, as NASA's deputy administrator, has insisted that she reports to the president himself.

    a veteran safety expert e-mailed NASA's chief safety officer and asked him about reports that the first stage of the rocket had exploded. Musk sued the man for $1 million and settled the suit on condition of his retraction and silence.

    Also a bunch of stuff about him getting fucked by capitalism

    There's so much more, this article is dense with Musk bashing