Company · Software · Media · founded 1995
Zip2
Palo Alto company that sold licensed city-guide software to newspaper publishers. Founded by Elon Musk, Kimbal Musk and Greg Kouri; Compaq bought it in 1999.
Of the 1 person here linked to Zip2, 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. 1 of them also appear at OpenAI. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Zip2
Founder Past
Role
Co-founder, 1995–1999
Source
· high confidence. Compaq bought it in 1999. Wikipedia's Zip2 page says $305 million. Compaq's own SEC filing (AltaVista S-1, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001100862/000101287099004680/0001012870-99-004680.txt) gives $307.2 million in cash plus employee stock options, which matches this file's narrative.
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Elon Musk
CEO, Tesla and SpaceX; owner, X (formerly Twitter)
wealthy · some · college degree
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