5 Things You Didn't Know About Elon Musk

There's thing comic astir Jay Leno's praise for billionaire Elon Musk.

The comedian interviewed the business magnate astatine the SpaceX Starbase successful Texas for the Sept. 21 occurrence of Jay Leno's Garage, and, successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News, helium teased what it was truly similar seeing the Tesla CEO hard astatine work.

"In 2 and a fractional years, helium built fundamentally his ain Cape Canaveral down there," Jay told E! News. "I deliberation it's just to accidental he's a genius. Being successful Hollywood, I conscionable geniuses each day, truthful I'm somewhat suspect. But, if you're talking to Elon, [and say] 'Elon, would you cheque this trajectory?' He'll bash an equation portion he's talking, and I conscionable recovered that fascinating."

But, according to Jay, it's much than conscionable Elon's imaginativeness that is taking SpaceX to caller heights. "When I went down to SpaceX, helium was surviving successful a small Airstream trailer connected the property," helium shared. "He's progressive successful each facet of that thing."

Of course, this isn't the archetypal clip Jay's gotten up adjacent and idiosyncratic with Elon and his imaginativeness for the future. "Back successful 2007, Elon came implicit to my store with the prototype to his Tesla electrical car, the 2 seater sports car," helium said. "He said to me, 'I privation to physique charging stations each up and down the seashore of California.' And I'm sitting determination going, 'Yeah, OK, that'll happen.'"

But, Jay said helium was happily proven wrong: "He's the lone electrical car shaper to physique the infrastructure portion he's gathering the car. "

For a person look astatine Jay's sojourn to Space X, drawback the caller occurrence of Jay Leno's Garage Sept. 21 astatine 10 p.m. ET connected CNBC.

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