Elon Musk applied for a job at Netscape, but failed.
Elon Musk is best known today as CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, but long before making a name for himself in the world of technology, he worked odd jobs while trying to figure out what he wanted to do. In fact, he was turned down for a role at Netscape that led Elon Musk to start Zip2 – the web software company that would make him a millionaire. This factoid was revealed when a Twitter user shared an old image of the billionaire entrepreneur and wrote: “In 1995, @elonmusk wanted to work with an internet company.”
The Twitter user went on to say that Elon Musk applied to work for Netscape, an American computer services company, after graduation. He never managed to get through, so he set up his own internet company Zip2 because “he couldn’t get a job anywhere,” the Twitter user wrote.
Responding to the statement on Twitter, Mr. Musk, 49, clarified that he could get a job in the 1990s – just not at an internet company, because there weren’t too many of those at the time.
“I could get a job, but not at an internet company (there weren’t many at the time),” Elon Musk wrote.
I could get a job, but not at an internet company (there weren’t many at the time)
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 21, 2021
His tweet garnered over 11,000 “likes” and hundreds of reactions
Eon Musk: Icouldbt get a job bone I started my own company .. https://t.co/eqU2UesB3H
– Agrim Jain (@ 14agrim) April 21, 2021
Now I bet he’d like to hire you.
– Ali from Ramadan Mubarak (@ Ali_Tesla585) April 21, 2021
moral of the story: You have to be shy to be hugely successful ???????? https://t.co/aLfegjZB8X
– Muhammad Ruwaif Fakerdey (@Muhammad_Ruwaif) April 21, 2021
According to CNBC, Elon Musk revealed in 2012 that he tried to get a job at Netscape because he had been interested in the internet since his birth. Netscape is the company that created the first web browser, Netscape Navigator.
“I actually tried to stay in [Netscape] lobby, but I was too shy to talk to anyone. So I’m like sitting in the hallway, “he said.” It was pretty embarrassing. “
In the early 1990s, Mr. Musk had a brief stint in the gaming industry. He sold the first Zip2 company to Compaq for about $ 300 million in 1999.
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