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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 later transferred to the University of Pennsylvania and received bachelor's degrees in economics and physics. He moved to California in 1995 to attend Stanford University, and with his brother Kimbal co-founded the software company Zip2, that was later acquired by Compaq in 1999.
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [4] [5] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[6] [7] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
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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.
The Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855, and in 1863 the school became Pennsylvania's land-grant university under the terms of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. Temple University in Philadelphia was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell , originally as a night school for working-class citizens.
The Religious Society of Free Quakers founded; 1783 June 20: Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783; June 22: Congress flees to Princeton, New Jersey, due to the Pennsylvania Munity; 1784 Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia Museum founded [11] Dock Street laid out. [8] 1785 – Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture instituted [8] 1786 Labor ...
A museum called "Zippo/Case visitors center" is located in Bradford, Pennsylvania, at 1932 Zippo Drive. This 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2 ) building contains rare and custom made Zippo lighters, and also sells the entire Zippo line.