Elon Musk's first company — an online city guide and business directory — founded with his brother Kimbal in 1995 and sold to Compaq for $307M in 1999, giving Musk the capital to fund X.com (which became PayPal).
Provided Musk with his first exit and the capital to pursue X.com — demonstrating the serial entrepreneur model where each venture funds the next, more ambitious one — and established his pattern of doing the technical and business work simultaneously.
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