The pictures of a Pune based techie Pranay Pathole with Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been doing rounds on social media

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Pathole, who went to United States for pursuing a master’s degree, recently met up with the business tycoon at Gigafactory Texas.

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The engineer, who was an employee of Tata Consultancy Services, was impressed with Musk’s ‘humble and down-to-earth nature’

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“It was so great meeting you @elonmusk at the Gigafactory Texas. Never seen such a humble and down-to-earth person. You're an inspiration to the millions,” Pathole tweeted

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Musk is said to regularly interact with Pathole over DMs on Twitter since the latter first connected and tweeted to the billionaire in 2018

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When the 19-year-old Pathole pointed out a flaw in Tesla's automatic windshield wipers in 2018, Musk replied that he would fix it in next release

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It is still unknown as to why Musk decided to meet his longtime Twitter friend face-to-face suddenly and can only say that Pathole is one of the lucky techies who got to meet his idol

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