It was a dream come true for 23 year old Pune man Pranay Pathole, who recently got to meet world¡¯s richest person Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO has been touting the youngster as his Twitter friend for a while now.
23YO Pranay, who met Musk at the Gigafactory Texas a few days ago, shared a glimpse of his meeting with the billionaire on the microblogging site yesterday.
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Uploading a picture with billionaire Elon Musk, Pranay Pathole wrote on twitter, "It was so great meeting you @elonmusk at the Gigafactory Texas. Never seen such a humble and down-to-earth person. You're an inspiration to the millions."
Musk and Pranay have been friends on social media since 2018. Their friendship reportedly started over Pranay's tweet about Tesla's automatic windscreen wipers, as per ANI report.
Not only was the 23 year old¡¯s tweet addressed to Musk and interestingly, even the billionaire and world¡¯s richest person had responded to Pranay within a few minutes.
"Fixed in next release," Musk had replied. And since then Musk and Pranay have been interacting regularly.
23 year old Pranay, who hails from Pune, has a massive following on Twitter. He has over 1.82 lakh followers on Twitter. His pinned tweet regarding the meet up with Musk, had already received over 48K likes and over 2K retweets.?Pranay is currently working as a software developer for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the report mentioned.
Earlier this month, Pathole had asked Elon if he had a chance to read Nick Bostrom's paper "Astronomical Waste" and wrote on the microblogging site: "This essentially states that every second we delay expanding into space, we lose at least one hundred trillion potential human lives that could have lived."
Musk replied to his Indian Twitter friend-"That estimate seems high, but the point is valid."
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