Of the memories that one early PayPal employee recalled from his time at the start-up, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, among the most vivid was the nod from the boss.
The boss was Elon Musk, then C.E.O. and co-founder of the company. The nod was a signal for the employee to pause what he was doing and compete against Musk on the office’s arcade version of the video game Street Fighter. “He would come over and give me the little, you know, head nod toward the break room,” the employee recalled, chuckling.
