“There’s no evidence of an emerald mine” isn’t a great rebuke when someone states your family owned an emerald mine. Either you say “Yes we did” or “No we didn’t”. But “There’s no evidence” is clearly a way to avoid being caught having lied today in case further evidence turns up tomorrow.
Oh yes. no evidence at all. except, of course, for your own interview…
JC: How do you handle fear?
EM: Company death – not succeeding with the company – causes me a lot more stress than physical danger. But I’ve been in physical danger before. The funny thing is I’ve not actually been that nervous. In South Africa, my father had a private plane we’d fly in incredibly dangerous weather and barely make it back. This is going to sound slightly crazy, but my father also had a share in an Emerald mine in Zambia. I was 15 and really wanted to go with him but didn’t realize how dangerous it was. I couldn’t find my passport so I ended up grabbing my brother’s – which turned out to be six months overdue! So we had this planeload of contraband and an overdue passport from another person. There were AK-47s all over the place and I’m thinking, “Man, this could really go bad.”
while his father lived in Apartheid South Africa… the mine was in Zambia. (he bought the share from dutch assholes.)
My Elon Musk based moments usually happen pretty early in the morning after a cup or two of coffee.
