His first company, Zip2, provided city guide software used by newspapers. Musk sold the company to Compaq for a cool $300 million, and that in 90s dollars! It then became part of the AltaVista search engine. Remember that? Musk went on to join PayPal by merging his X.com company no relation to Twitter with the now gigantic payment processor. Musk also co founded OpenAI the nonprofit behind ChatGPT and SolarCity, which was acquired by Tesla. Musk still has his fingers in plenty of pies, though....
