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Zip2 Corp. [2] was a company that provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers. [3] The company was founded in Palo Alto, California as Global Link Information Network, Inc. on November 9, 1995, [ 4 ] by Greg Kouri and brothers Elon and Kimbal Musk.
Musk's first venture was a residential painting business with College Pro Painters in 1994, the same year he and his elder brother, Elon, started their second company, Zip2. Zip2 was an online city guide that provided content for the new online versions of The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune newspapers.
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman known for his key roles in the space company SpaceX and the automotive company Tesla, Inc. He is also known for his ownership of X Corp. (the company that operates the social media platform X, formerly Twitter), and his role in the founding of the Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink, and OpenAI.
The book traces Elon Musk's life from his childhood up to the time he spent at Zip2 and PayPal, and then onto SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. In the book, Vance interviews Musk, those close to him, and those who were with him at the most important points of his life; Musk had no control over the biography's contents. [1]
In March 1999, Musk co-founded X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company, with US$10 million from the sale of Zip2. One year later, the company merged with Confinity, which had a money-transfer service called PayPal.In October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock, of which Musk received US$165 million.
214922 Ensembl ENSG00000165794 ENSMUSG00000072572 UniProt Q9NP94 G3X943 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_014579 NM_001256588 NM_001039676 RefSeq (protein) NP_001243517 NP_055394 NP_001034765 Location (UCSC) Chr 14: 21 – 21 Mb Chr 14: 52.13 – 52.13 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Zinc transporter ZIP2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC39A2 gene. See also Solute ...
X.com was an American online bank founded by Ed Ho, Harris Fricker, Elon Musk, and Christopher Payne in 1999 in Palo Alto, California.It merged with competitor Confinity in 2000 and the merged company changed its name to PayPal in 2001.
Zip (airline), a former Canadian airline Mr. ZIP, a promotional character; Piaggio Zip, a scooter; Zip Co, an Australian fintech company; Zip Industries, an Australian manufacturer of hot water dispensers