{"id":4311,"date":"2023-03-30T22:19:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T21:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2023-03-30T22:19:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T21:19:21","slug":"where-did-elon-musk-get-his-money-before-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/where-did-elon-musk-get-his-money-before-tesla\/","title":{"rendered":"Where did elon musk get his money before tesla?"},"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. Prior to his involvement with PayPal and Tesla, Musk co-founded web software company Zip2 with his brother Kimbal. The company was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999. Musk then started X.com, an online bank. It merged with Confinity in 2000 to form the company PayPal and was eventually bought by eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n

Musk made his early fortune as a co-founder of PayPal, the online payments system that was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n

Where did Elon Musk get his money? <\/h2>\n

In May, Elon Musk announced that he would be selling $10 billion (£8.7 billion) worth of Tesla shares to fund his new company, Neuralink.<\/p>\n

Musk then sold a further $4 billion (£35 billion) in shares following the completion of his Twitter buyout, bringing his overall 2022 share sell-off to $20 billion (£176 billion).<\/p>\n