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In 1995 he
founded Zip2, a company that provided maps and business directories to online newspapers. In 1999 Zip2 was bought by the computer manufacturer
Compaq for $307 million, and
Musk then founded an online financial services company, X.com, which later became PayPal, which specialized in transferring money online.
In 2002 he
founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) to make more affordable rockets
https://www.britannica.com/money/Elon-Musk
SpaceX is a private spaceflight company that sends
satellites and people to space, including NASA crews to the
International Space Station (ISS).
Founder Elon Musk is also creating and testing a
Starship system for lunar landings and, he hopes, future crewed
Mars missions.
https://www.space.com/18853-spacex.html
Musk
co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit in 2015, with a for-profit artificial intelligence research lab component;
Musk
co-founded Neuralink in 2016 with the goal of working on “brain-machine interfaces,” or BMIs, that can be implanted directly into the body.
Founded with the intention of helping dispel city traffic via underground tunnels as a subsidiary of SpaceX, the Boring Company is one of Musk’s side projects. Its aim: build tunnels.
https://time.com/6170834/elon-musk-business-timeline-twitter/