“Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself”, 2017-01-11 (; backlinks):
…I ask him [Peter Thiel] if Mr. Trump [narcissistic personality disorder] and Mr. Musk [bipolar disorder] are similar.
“I’m going to get in trouble, but they are, actually. They’re both grandmaster-level salespeople and these very much larger-than-life figures.”
[Risk-taking] He recalls a story from his and Musk’s PayPal days [Musk version], when Musk joined the engineering team’s poker game and bet everything on every hand, admitting only afterward that it was his first time playing poker.
Then there was the time they were driving in Musk’s McLaren F1 car, “the fastest car in the world.” It hit an embankment, achieved liftoff, made a 360-degree horizontal turn, crashed and was destroyed. [It was repaired & sold in 2007 to raise capital for Tesla Motors & SpaceX which were on the verge of bankruptcy due to overextension & risk-taking.] “It was a miracle neither of us were hurt”, Mr. Thiel says. “I wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, which is not advisable. Elon’s first comment was, ‘Wow, Peter, that was really intense’.
And then it was: ‘You know, I had read all these stories about people who made money and bought sports cars and crashed them. But I knew it would never happen to me, so I didn’t get any insurance.’ And then we hitchhiked the rest of the way to the meeting [with Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital].”