- Max Levchin told Elon Musk’s biographer about the difficulties of working with the maverick billionaire.
- In the early days of PayPal, Musk suggested an arm-wrestle to resolve an argument over software.
- It was “the stupidist imaginable way to settle a software-coding disagreement,” Levchin said.
Elon Musk challenged his PayPal business partner, Max Levchin, to an arm-wrestle to settle a software argument, according to a new biography.
In 2000, Musk’s X.com, an online bank, had merged with Confinity, a competitor co-founded by like-minded Silicon Valley entrepreneurs Peter Thiel and Levchin. The early days of the company, soon to become PayPal, were filled with clashes over everything from its name to which operating system they should run on, per Walter Isaacson’s book.
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