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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Zip2Zip2 - Wikipedia

    Zip2 Corp. was a company that provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers. The company was founded in Palo Alto, California as Global Link Information Network, Inc. on November 9, 1995, by Greg Kouri and brothers Elon and Kimbal Musk.

  2. Jun 22, 2024 · Zip2, former American technology company (1995–99) that was the first enterprise founded by Elon Musk. It provided a searchable business directory that could be described as an Internet version of the yellow pages telephone directory with maps included.

    • 1995: Zip2. Along with his brother, Musk founded Zip2, an online business directory, as an online alternative to the standard paper yellow pages. (Google would not launch until 1998.)
    • 1999: X.com. Musk invested some of his windfall from the Zip2 sale into his next venture: X.com, an online bank, launched with three other co-founders. X.com’s business model was innovative for its time, in that it incentivized sign-ups and eased the process of transferring funds digitally, with no need for mail or traditional banking infrastructure.
    • 2000: PayPal. X.com merged with software company Confinity just one year later, forming PayPal, a secure online payments platform with a foundation in payments conducted for PalmPilots.
    • 2002: SpaceX. Musk next set his sights on a lofty goal: space exploration, and the future colonization Mars. In the past 20 years, SpaceX has dealt with a series of rocket launch failures and Starship explosions.
  3. Jun 19, 2018 · Elon Musk and his brother Kimbal founded Zip2, a web software startup that created online city guides for newspapers, in 1995. They lived in their small office, showered at the YMCA and worked hard to sell the company to Compaq in 1999.

  4. Jun 16, 2022 · Learn how Elon Musk launched Zip2, his first Internet company, in 1995 and sold it for $307 million in 1999. Discover the challenges, sacrifices and opportunities he faced along the way.

  5. Apr 24, 2022 · Zip2 was Elon and Kimbal Musk’s business that they created at the start of the dot com era. The Musk brothers saw a business opportunity that would allow companies to advertise online. After expanding the company with help of venture capital firms, the Musk brothers sold Zip2 for a huge profit.

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