Musk and his brother, Kimbal, started Zip2, an internet software program business enterprise that evolved and advertised an Internet city manual for the newspaper publishing industry.

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The business enterprise raised cash from a small institution of angel investors.

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Compaq obtained Zip2 for US$307 million in cash and US$34 million in inventory alternatives in February 1999. Musk obtained US$22 million for his 7 percentage share from the sale.

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Musk co-founded X.com, a monetary offerings and bills business enterprise thru email. It performed an excessive degree of protection without it being complex for the consumer to make the transfer.

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X.com merged with Confinity Inc., a software program business enterprise primarily based totally in Silicon Valley.

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Musk was interested in Confinity due to its clean payment system. The merged business enterprise modified its call to PayPal.

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Musk married Canadian creator Justine Wilson after assembly meeting her while attending the University of Queens. They had six kids together however their first son, Nevada, exceeded away in infancy.

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