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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 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 ...
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 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 ...
Zip2 was acquired by Compaq in 1999 for $307 million, of which a 27-year-old Musk pocketed $22 million. Musk went on to invest three-quarters of his net worth into the company now known as PayPal ...
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.
Musk beetle, a Eurasian species of longhorn beetle belonging to the subfamily Cerambycinae, tribe Callichromatini; Musk deer, of the species that make up Moschus; Musk duck, a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia
xAI was founded by Musk [7] [8] [9] in Nevada [4] on March 9, 2023, and has since been headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area in California. [10] Igor Babuschkin, formerly associated with Google's DeepMind unit, was recruited by Musk to be Chief Engineer. [11] Musk officially announced the formation of xAI on July 12, 2023.
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.