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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.
He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University but never enrolled in classes, and with his brother Kimbal co-founded the online city guide software company Zip2. The startup was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. That same year, Musk co-founded X.com, a direct bank. X.com merged with Confinity in 2000 to form PayPal.
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.
Co-founder of online payment system PayPal, which was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. (Ebay later spun out PayPal in 2015.) ... After selling Zip2, a software company designed to help ...
Brother; cofounder of Zip2, which he and Elon sold to Compaq. JB Straubel Founder and CEO of Redwood Materials; a Tesla cofounder who served as CTO from 2004 to July 2019.
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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.