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@SoulSloop99: I stumbled upon this old photo from 1992, and it really blew my mind. Musk was only 21 back then, looking incredibly young, arm-in-arm with his University of Pennsylvania roommate, Ren Yuxiang. Who would have thought that this snapshot would sow the seeds for the future Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory? This is no ordinary classmate photo. Ren Yuxiang was a gold medalist in the Physics Olympiad — even Musk admitted that…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-05-20 Cached

This is a nostalgic photo of Elon Musk (age 21) with his UPenn roommate Ren Yuxiang in 1992. Ren later became Vice President of Tesla Asia Pacific and led the rapid construction of the Shanghai Gigafactory.

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@CryptoDoggyCN: Case solved! I found that the Chinese guy in Elon Musk's classic college roommate photo who looks like CZ is actually Ren Yuxiang. Musk and him were physics lab partners, and Musk once said Ren was the only one who beat him in physics. No wonder, Ren won a Physics Olympiad gold medal at East China Normal University Affiliated High School. When they were roommates at UPenn, they became close friends, discussing how to apply physics laws to...

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-05-17 Cached

Revealing that the Chinese student in Elon Musk's classic college roommate photo is Ren Yuxiang, a physics gold medalist who later became a Tesla executive and is now founding a startup that converts CO2 into aviation fuel.

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