Elon Musk on Zip2 and the Internet (1998)
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Elon Musk on Zip2 and the Internet (1998)
27 year old Elon Musk on Zip2 and the internet in this CBS interview in 1998. On April 30, 2024, Elon shared on X about Zip2 the following: I personally wrote the first national maps, directions, yellow pages & white pages on the Internet in the summer of 1995 in C with a little C++. Didn’t use a “web server” to save CPU cycles (just read ...
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After selling Zip2 in 1999 for $22 million, Elon Musk’s first significant expenditure was a $1 million McLaren F1. The tale goes that Musk crashed this uninsured supercar a few months later while attempting to impress Peter Thiel. | History In Pictures
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