Harvard professor: Elon Musk once told me to 'get out' during a meeting—here's how I won him over

Elon Musk once told this Harvard professor to 'get out' during a meeting. (via CNBCMakeIt)

Since Byron and I were both researching the challenges of startups in the private space industry, he was kind enough to let me tag along. We wanted to ask Musk about his thoughts on the future of private space tourism.

But all that hard work didn't make much of a difference, because not more than 30 seconds into the meeting, Musk told us, "No. Get out of my office." Completely disoriented, I stared at him blankly and asked, "No?" To which he replied, "No." The meeting was about to end disastrously — until I did something out of the blue that somehow humored him beyond belief: I giggled. "You think we're trying to pitch you, right? We don't want your money," I told him.

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