Senator Ted Cruz

So let's go back 25 years, late 90s. You're at PayPal. How do you turn PayPal into the success it was, which then helped launch you to the next one and the next one?

So let's go back 25 years, late 90s. You're at PayPal. How do you turn PayPal into the success it was, which then helped launch you to the next one and the next one?

So let's go back 25 years, late 90s. You're at PayPal. How do you turn PayPal into the success it was, which then helped launch you to the next one and the next one?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, so you sell the company for 300 million. How much does that change your life?

All right, so you sell the company for 300 million. How much does that change your life?

All right, so you sell the company for 300 million. How much does that change your life?

Well, and as you know, Peter Thiel and I were buddies back in the mid-90s before he went and did any of this. But I became friends with him when he was a corporate lawyer in New York and just sort of a young libertarian with a lot of dreams. So it's been a heck of a journey.

Well, and as you know, Peter Thiel and I were buddies back in the mid-90s before he went and did any of this. But I became friends with him when he was a corporate lawyer in New York and just sort of a young libertarian with a lot of dreams. So it's been a heck of a journey.

Well, and as you know, Peter Thiel and I were buddies back in the mid-90s before he went and did any of this. But I became friends with him when he was a corporate lawyer in New York and just sort of a young libertarian with a lot of dreams. So it's been a heck of a journey.

All right. So 2002, you start SpaceX. How do you start a rocket company? What's the first day where you're like, I want to make rockets and I want to go to Mars? What do you do on day one?

All right. So 2002, you start SpaceX. How do you start a rocket company? What's the first day where you're like, I want to make rockets and I want to go to Mars? What do you do on day one?

All right. So 2002, you start SpaceX. How do you start a rocket company? What's the first day where you're like, I want to make rockets and I want to go to Mars? What do you do on day one?

Stop, yeah.

Stop, yeah.

Stop, yeah.

So I remember you and I first met in 2013 when I was a brand new baby senator. Yeah. And I was still down in the basement office. They stick freshman senators in a basement office, kind of like hazing. Yeah, yeah, I was about to say, it sounds like it. There are 100 Senate offices, but for six months you stay in the basement. Put you in your place. Yeah, it's like wearing a beanie.

So I remember you and I first met in 2013 when I was a brand new baby senator. Yeah. And I was still down in the basement office. They stick freshman senators in a basement office, kind of like hazing. Yeah, yeah, I was about to say, it sounds like it. There are 100 Senate offices, but for six months you stay in the basement. Put you in your place. Yeah, it's like wearing a beanie.