Elon Musk applied to Netscape but did not get through.
Elon Musk is best known today as the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, but long before he made a name in the world of technology, he did work while trying to figure out what he wanted to do. In fact, it was turned down for a role at Netscape that led to Elon Musk launching Zip2 – the web software business that would make him a millionaire. This fact was revealed when a Twitter user shared an old picture of the billionaire entrepreneur and wrote: “In 1995, @elonmusk wanted to work with an internet business.”
The Twitter user went on to say that after his studies, Elon Musk applied to Netscape, a US computer services industry. He never got through, which is why he started his own internet business Zip2 as ‘he could not get a job anywhere’, writes the Twitter user.
In response to the statement on Twitter, Musk, 49, explained that he could get a job in the 90s – just not at an internet business, because there were not too many of those back then.
“I could get a job, just not at an internet business (was not much then),” wrote Elon Musk.
I could get a job, just not at an internet business (was not much then)
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 21 April 2021
His tweet garnered more than 11,000 likes and hundreds of responses
Eon Musk: I can get a job because I started my own business .. https://t.co/eqU2UesB3H
– Agrim Jain (@ 14agrim) 21 April 2021
Now I bet they wish they hired you.
– Ali van Ramadan Mubarak (@ Ali_Tesla585) 21 April 2021
moral of the story: you have to be ashamed to achieve a great success ???????? https://t.co/aLfegjZB8X
– Muhammad Ruwaif Fakerdey (@ Muhammad_Ruwaif) 21 April 2021
According to CNBC, Elon Musk revealed in 2012 that he was trying to get a job at Netscape because he was interested in the internet at the time. Netscape is the company that created the first web browser, Netscape Navigator.
‘I was actually trying to get into the [Netscape] lobby, but I was too embarrassed to talk to anyone. So I’m just like standing in the foyer, “he said.
In the early 1990s, Musk also had a brief stint in the gambling industry. He sold his first company, Zip2, to Compaq in 1999 for about $ 300 million.
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