What companies did Musk start?

Musk founded these three companies: Zip2, X.com &; Paypal, space exploration technology company''

Zip2

1995 After dropping out of school, elon musk and his younger brother, Kimbal Musk, set up Zip2 Company with the investment of a small group of random angels in Silicon Valley, which is a company that develops online content publishing software for news organizations. At that time, The New York Times and The Chicago Post became customers of the Musk Brothers.

X.com & PayPal

1999, Compaq, an American computer manufacturer, bought Zip2 with $307 million in cash and $34 million in stock options. Elon musk, 28, made a profit of $22 million in this acquisition. In March of the same year, elon musk invested US$ 654.38+0 billion to establish X.com, an online financial service and e-mail payment business company with two partners from Silicon Valley. ?

In 2000, in order to solve the competition of online fast transfer business, elon musk merged X.com Company with Confinity Company founded by Peter Tiller and Max Levchin, and the new company was renamed PayPal in February of the following year.

Space exploration technology company

In June 2002, elon musk established Space X Company as CEO and Chief Technology Officer, and elon musk began to study how to reduce the cost of rocket launch, and planned to immigrate to Mars in the future to build a real space civilization for mankind.