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Fortune
Eva Roytburg

Elon Musk’s best friend could make $100 billion on SpaceX. His firm is also owed billions

Antonio Gracias, founder, chief executive officer and chief investment officer of Valor Equity Partners (Credit: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Elon Musk has a shadow.

His name is Antonio Gracias, a handsome private equity investor from Detroit. The two met through the Silicon Valley web at the turn of the century, and soon Gracias—at 55, just one year older than Musk—lent Musk $1 million in his early days at Tesla, when the company was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.

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