{"id":3397,"date":"2023-03-21T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T09:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2023-03-21T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T09:21:02","slug":"how-did-elon-musk-originally-make-his-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/how-did-elon-musk-originally-make-his-money\/","title":{"rendered":"How did elon musk originally make his money?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk is an entrepreneur and business magnate who co-founded PayPal and Tesla Motors. He also founded SpaceX, and is now working on developing the Hyperloop. But how did he originally make his money?<\/p>\n

Musk was born in South Africa in 1971. He showed an early interest in computers and programming, and when he was only 12 years old, he created a computer game called Blastar and sold it for $500. He attended Stanford University for two days before dropping out to pursue his entrepreneurial dreams.<\/p>\n

In 1995, he started Zip2, a web software company, with his brother Kimbal. The company was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. Musk co-founded X.com that same year, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000 to form the company we now know as PayPal and was later acquired by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n

In 2004, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company. He is now working on developing the Hyperloop, a high-speed transportation system.<\/p>\n