1.7M views · 1.7K reactions | After selling Zip2 in 1999 for $22 million, Elon Musk’s first significant expenditure was a $1 million McLaren F1. The tale goes that Musk crashed this uninsured supercar a few months later while attempting to impress Peter Thiel. | History In Pictures | Facebook

It’s 1999. Most tech founders are terrified of the press. They hire "image consultants." They memorize scripts. They stay in the shadows to protect their stock price. But Elon Musk decided to play a different game. Since his Zip2 days, Musk has done something no other billionaire would dare: He stopped hiding. While Jeff Bezos gives one highly-controlled interview a year... And Mark Zuckerberg speaks only in "corporate-approved" soundbites... Musk is doing 3-hour podcasts with Joe Rogan and tech