Exam paper checked by Elon Musk sold at auction for Rs 5.8 lakh

College papers classified by Tesla CEO Elon Musk who worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 have been sold at an auction for $7,753 (about Rs 5,87,099). According to the Daily Mail, while pursuing his economics and physics degree, Musk graded several papers, including Management 231, the ‘Entrepreneurship: Implementation and Operations’ class, taught by Professor Miles Bass. The papers belonged to Brian Thomas, one of Bass’s students, who, as an inside joke, included a phrase referring to situations in which a company needed an ‘exit strategy’.

But Musk did not find the phrase appropriate, wrote ‘graphic’ over him and deducted two points from Thomas’ grade, the report said. Before founding SpaceX and Tesla, and with a net worth of $277 billion that would make him the richest man in the world, Musk was a student and teacher assistant at the University of Pennsylvania’s famed Wharton School of Business.