A quick reappearance of Zip2 – Elon Musk’s first Company
It is when DogeDesigner tweeted with a picture of business card of Musk’s first company- Zip2 that it gained interest of its audience
“I operate on the physics approach to analysis. You boil things down to the first principles or fundamental truths in a particular area and then you reason up from there” says Elon Musk
Today, the second richest man in the world, the CEO of Twitter, the electric car maker of Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX, tunneling startup boring company and we definitely anticipate a lot more to come, once started his journey with Zip2, an American technology company founded by Elon Musk in 1995. Zip2 (1995-1999). When is Elon Musk not the talk of the town? Barely a moment when Elon Musk fails to attract the attention of millions and here is Zip2 into the discussion again brought about by a tweet by DogeDesigner. This tweet shows the business card of Elon Musk’s Zip2 from 1995.
Not to wonder the engagement every little detail about Elon Musk attracts, be it him repairing his 1978 BMW 320i by himself to his business card Zip2. Several of the find this interesting, and cute to some planning to email Musk to his Zip2 email and wondering if they manage to get replies.
Elon Musk started his first company with his brother. As stated in an article by Britannica, Musk conceived the idea of making it possible for computer users to find local businesses at a time when computers were not yet ubiquitous. He brought on his brother, Kimbal Musk, and a friend, Gregory Kouri, as partners.
Musk said in a 2014 commencement speech at the University of Southern California, ” When my brother and I were starting our first company, instead of getting an apartment, we just rented a small office and we slept on the couch. We showered at the YMCA and we were so hard up that we only had one computer, the website was up during the day and I was coding it at night, seven days a week, all the time.”
“I briefly had a girlfriend in that period and in order to be with me she’d have to sleep in the office,” Musk added. This self-made man again inspires everyone to work intensely for their goals. Today, When Musk seems to be conquering his domains so magnificently, little do people know about his intensity of struggles and hard work.
Elon Musk's Business Card from 1995 @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/qGR4aEGRbe
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