Software Company Zip2. In 1995 Musk his brother Kimbal and Greg Kouri founded web software company Zip2 with funds from a group of angel investors. Global Link Information Network was invented as a sort of Yellow Pages for the internet.
It provided a searchable business directory that could be described as an Internet version of the yellow pages telephone directory with maps included which it later made available to online newspapers. Fate loves irony Mr Musk has joked in the past while talking about his brief stint in the gaming industry. He has got the idea when he was doing an internship in 1994 as he heard a messed up pitch from a Yellow Pages sales rep for an online listing to go with the printed book.
After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from its Wharton School of business Elon Musk tried and failed to find a job at an internet company.
Zip2 former American technology company 199599 that was the first enterprise founded by Elon Musk. Elon Musk is the one who had the idea for Zip2s concept. Zip2 was Elon Musk s first company and it sold for 307 million in 1999. In 1995 Musk his brother Kimbal and Greg Kouri founded web software company Zip2 with funds from a group of angel investors.
