Rudy Giuliani ‘mob scene’ turned Elon Musk off seeking advice, new book says

Biography by Walter Isaacson contains colorful nugget of then New York mayor seeking 10% stake in PayPal in return for advice

Elon Musk backed away from a plan to recruit Rudy Giuliani as a political fixer to help him turn PayPal into a bank in 2001 after he and an associate found the then New York mayor surrounded by goonish confidantes" in an office that felt like a mob scene".

This guy occupies a different planet," Musk, who would become the world's richest man, said of Giuliani, then approaching the peak of his fame.