Multi billionaire samples some Irish hospitality in Coppers

IvaBigWun

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/billionaire-musk-samples-some-irish-hospitality-in-coppers-29740929.html

Multi-billionaire Elon Musk recently took a break from his bid to build a colony on Mars to explore the wonders of 'Coppers' – Copper Face Jacks, the popular Dublin nightclub on Harcourt Street.

Musk, 42, broke away from the Dublin Web Summit after he had met with Taoiseach Enda Kenny earlier that day, to hit the dance-floor and mingle with local beauties after midnight.

The co-founder of Paypal, who has been described by Jon Favreau, the director of Iron Man, as the inspiration for genius billionaire Tony Stark, went largely unnoticed in the venue where he stayed until after 2am.

Only after he left did one woman whom he engaged in conversation for some time realise he was not only a billionaire, but also the chief executive of SpaceX, a privately owned spacecraft company and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, the electric car makers.

Shervin Pishevar, the co-founder of venture capital fund Sherpa Global, who is strategic adviser to Uber, an alternative taxi service valued recently at $3.4bn, was also in the venue which is noted for its popularity with nurses and guards.

Pishevar, nicknamed "Bill Gates' worst nightmare" by the Financial Times for his ability to spot the next hot technology start-up, is best-known for backing Tumblr, a micro-blogging platform sold to Yahoo! for $1.1bn in March.

Paddy Cosgrave, the founder of the Dublin Web Summit, left drinks with Bono in the Shelbourne to follow Musk to the club along with a rake of Irish start-up entrepreneurs.

Among the Irish contingent in Coppers was Dubliner Eoghan Jennings, managing partner of Parklane Capital, who previously was chief financial officer of XING AG, a social network for professionals hugely popular in Germany.

Tom Millett, co-founder of Irish online music video company BalconyTV, confirmed to the Sunday Independent his attendance. "Elon is a very tall, pleasant guy. I was embarrassingly star-struck when I met him!

"He was talking to a very attractive lady but was very nice to me when I spoke to him," he added. "After he left I heard someone told her 'Do you know who you have just let slip through your fingers'."

Having arrived in Ireland on a private jet before driving in a Tesla sports car to the Web Summit in the Royal Dublin Society, Musk is understood to have departed Coppers in time-honoured fashion – by taxi.

wazky

Did he finish the night like everyone else in Coppers?, throwing your ring up whilst shifting a hefty nurse?

connundrum

hit the dance-floor and mingle with local beauties after midnight.

Typical Indo lies.

The Diabolical Monocle

Imagine the skank stampede.

The sound of 10,000 gold diggers locking on.


Thought I felt ground quake out here the other night.

wretcheddomain

In this case, local beauties is a euphemism for prostitutes.

wretcheddomain

The Diabolical Monocle wrote: »

Imagine the skank stampede.

The sound of 10,000 gold diggers locking on.


Thought I felt ground quake out here the other night.

They should do a Dublin bull run and have all the >15 stone nurses (80% of them) take part, rampaging toward the Dáil gates, only to return to their home at Coppers later in the evening.

minidazzler

wretcheddomain wrote: »

In this case, local beauties is a euphemism for prostitutes.

No it's not though.

Hope he had fun.... I wonder did he tip? :pac:

NIMAN

42 and in Coppers, needs to take a good look at himself.

The aul pervy bloke in the corner!

The Diabolical Monocle

He was surely doing some kind of bio-research.

dodderangler

Multi billionaire could hang round with all the Celebs so Why did he lower his standards To go to that muppet infested kip!

Paulzx

dodderangler wrote: »

Multi billionaire could hang round with all the Celebs so Why did he lower his standards To go to that muppet infested kip!

Because the bolded bit applies in exactly the same way to wherever the so called "celebs" hang out

My name is URL

The fact that the article appears in the 'Business' section of the paper rather than the Celebrity gossip section speaks volumes about what an utter rag the Indo is

camel jockey

dodderangler wrote: »

Multi billionaire could hang round with all the Celebs so Why did he lower his standards To go to that muppet infested kip!

"Celebs" like Lisa Murphy and Gerald Keane? Plebs more like.

dodderangler

camel jockey wrote: »

"Celebs" like Lisa Murphy and Gerald Keane? Plebs more like.

Who??

MadsL

Kudos on avoiding the cliche of Lilly's..

awec

The guy is fortunate that nobody knows who he is. I'm sure it's brilliant being loaded but I imagine that if you were a recognisable face, for example a footballer, going out would be a complete pain in the ass.

Getting asked for photos and autographs must wear thin after a while.

Zillah

Elon Musk is a seriously cool dude. I'm trying to decide if the chance to say hi to one of the finest minds of our generation would be worth being in Coppers.

Probably not.

camel jockey

dodderangler wrote: »

Who??

Exactly.

Aidric

wazky wrote: »

Did he finish the night like everyone else in Coppers?, throwing your ring up whilst shifting a hefty nurse?

I heard she was a size 16.

entropi

Surely part of trying to build a colony on Mars is to sample some of the harshest environments on Earth...this was purely research

BMJD

awec wrote: »

Getting asked for photos and autographs must wear thin after a while.

s'alright

Dr Turk Turkelton

Aidric wrote: »

I heard she was a size 16.

Debenhams model perhaps?

General General

connundrum wrote: »

hit the dance-floor and mingle with local beauties after midnight.

Typical Indo lies.

Local beauties is a fair description, along the lines of German comedian or generous Scotsman.

Rhys Essien

I wonder did Elon approach any ladies...."Hi,Im Elon and Im a billionaire".

Seaneh

He studied in Queens for 2 years, I'd imagine it wasn't his first time in either Dublin or Coppers.

Miss Behaviour

General General wrote: »

Local beauties is a fair description, along the lines of German comedian or generous Scotsman.

Fire up a photo there dude, and let us all revel in the glory of your masculine beauty.

dr.bollocko

Poor bastard probably needed some cheering up.

Forbes reports that the company’s CEO and Solar City’s Chairman, Elon Musk, “saw his net worth decline from about $7.7 billion on Tuesday to $6.4 billion on Thursday this week.”

http://elitedaily.com/news/business/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-loses-1-billion-two-days/

Mint Aero

So f*cking what?

goose2005

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Poor bastard probably needed some cheering up.




http://elitedaily.com/news/business/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-loses-1-billion-two-days/

That'll teach him to watch his wallet when he goes to Coppers

Cool_CM

General General wrote: »

Local beauties is a fair description, along the lines of German comedian or generous Scotsman.

German Comedian: Oliver Pocher

Generous Scotsman: Tom Hunter

Karl Stein

A man went to a nightclub is it?

Okay.

Lapin

"Paddy Cosgrave, the founder of the Dublin Web Summit, left drinks with Bono in the Shelbourne to follow Musk to the club"


I do that all the time myself.

EyeSight

Between "newpapers" having tv show spoilers(love/hate) all over them and reporting that a man went to a club, it's embarrassing...

LETHAL LADY

"Only after he left did one woman whom he engaged in conversation for some time realise he was not only a billionaire, but also the chief executive of SpaceX, a privately owned spacecraft company and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, the electric car makers."

FFS, like you would have this realisation.

Rhys Essien

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

"Only after he left did one woman whom he engaged in conversation for some time realise he was not only a billionaire, but also the chief executive of SpaceX, a privately owned spacecraft company and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, the electric car makers."

FFS, like you would have this realisation.

She forgot he was also co-founder of PayPal.:D

The Big Smoke

LETHAL LADY wrote: »

"Only after he left did one woman whom he engaged in conversation for some time realise he was not only a billionaire, but also the chief executive of SpaceX, a privately owned spacecraft company and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, the electric car makers."

FFS, like you would have this realisation.

Basically they are saying that if she knew this, she would've been more open to dropping her cacks.

Savoir.Faire

I've been in Coppers on a few occasions over the years, usually after considerably overindulging on liquid refreshments. Apart from the wretched music, I couldn't really see too much wrong with the place. I'm certainly not in their key demographic, but it appeared to be filled with people who were having a good time. Good spot to pick up a filly as well.

Some of the misery loves company crew around here could do with shutting down their laptops, putting on some suitable clothes and heading to the place to snap them out of the existential crisis they appear to have found themselves in.

petes

First time I think I've ever read 'a rake of' in an article!

jester77

lol, I know Jennings. He's the reason they would they would have all ended up in Coppers

IvaBigWun

Carlos Roca wrote: »

A man went to a nightclub is it?

Okay.

Not just a nightclub, he went into Ireland's biggest cattle market

IvaBigWun

petes wrote: »

First time I think I've ever read 'a rake of' in an article!

:pac:

Adamantium

Musk: "So Mr.Coppers how about that proposition to make you our first orbital nightclub franchise?"

April O Neill

IvaBigWun wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/billionaire-musk-samples-some-irish-hospitality-in-coppers-29740929.html

The Indo tugging themselves furiously to the unremarkable japes of rich people, as per fúcking usual.

I am pie

April O Neill wrote: »

The Indo tugging themselves furiously to the unremarkable japes of rich people, as per fúcking usual.

Squeee billionaire squeeee

Woop de fcking doo

CatLou

dodderangler wrote: »

Multi billionaire could hang round with all the Celebs so Why did he lower his standards To go to that muppet infested kip!

Because everyone there is either too drunk or too ignorant to recognize him :P Must feel good for a change.

Adamantium

I pray as an atheist for the day that the likes of Elon Musk walk into a nightclub and people gush over them like Beiber and Cyrus

petes

CatLou wrote: »

Because everyone there is either too drunk or too ignorant to recognize him :P Must feel good for a change.

To be honest if I was either I still wouldn't recognise him!

rubadub

largely unnoticed in the venue where he stayed until after 2am.

Only after he left did one woman whom he engaged in conversation for some time realise he was not only a billionaire, but also the chief executive of SpaceX, a privately owned spacecraft company and chief product architect of Tesla Motors, the electric car makers.

Meanwhile half the other chancers chatting up women are openly bragging about the fact they are billionaire astronauts.

CatLou

rubadub wrote: »

Meanwhile half the other chancers chatting up women are openly bragging about the fact they are billionaire astronauts.

We girls know that´s Barney Stinson.

IvaBigWun

Adamantium wrote: »

I pray as an atheist for the day that the likes of Elon Musk walk into a nightclub and people gush over them like Beiber and Cyrus

Im 99% 100% sure no one gushes over Miley Cyrus. Scary image tbh

Fred Swanson

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