'Ancient' business card of Elon Musk's Zip2 company appears on Twitter, fans ask how much it would sell at auction
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Highlights
- A picture of the Tesla chief's business card from 1995 is making the rounds on the Internet
- The business card is of Musk's Zip2 company which provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers
- The card has Musk's telephone, fax and official work email address
- Another user shared the source code of the Blastar game by Musk which was published in 1984
Whenever a memory from our past pops-up on the screen, it gives us a sweet flashback of good old times. Something similar happened with the world's richest man, Elon Musk.
A picture of the Tesla chief's business card from 1995 is making the rounds on the Internet. The business card is of Musk's Zip2 company which provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers. The 51-year-old billionaire founded the company in 1995 along with his brothers, Kimbal Musk and Greg Kouri in Palo Alto.
The card has the basic business card layout with the company's logo and name on it along with Musk's name, on the right side.
It reads:
"Elon Musk
Chairman of the Board
Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder"
It also has Musk's telephone, fax and official work email address.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Ancient times</p>— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1547102805600632832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> The billionaire's Internet friend, Pranay Pathole replied to the original tweet and applauded Musk for launching a company that "single-handedly wrote the entire code for drawing vector map & calculating point-to-point direction" anywhere in the US.
"Remember this patent that you filed for Zip2 in 1996?! Pretty cool that you single-handedly wrote the entire code for drawing vector map & calculating point-to-point direction anywhere in the US (basically the first company to do so)," Pathole wrote.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Remember this patent that you filed for Zip2 in 1996?! Pretty cool that you single-handedly wrote the entire code for drawing vector map & calculating point-to-point direction anywhere in the US (basically the first company to do so) <a href="https://t.co/rfPcMQcOWC">pic.twitter.com/rfPcMQcOWC</a></p>— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) <a href="https://twitter.com/PPathole/status/1547104659596537856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> While another user shared the source code of the Blastar game by Musk which was published in 1984. The user joked about the page number on which the code was published, given the fact that Musk is known for his memes.
Another person joked about those frantically calling on the number given on the business card.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">People calling the number like crazy… i feel bad for whoever has that number. �� not really!</p>— cesar (@cesar12473764) <a href="https://twitter.com/cesar12473764/status/1547198969910071297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Wonder how much that would go for at auction ��</p>— Abhi (@abhionline) <a href="https://twitter.com/abhionline/status/1547113435716284416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Musk was only 24 when he founded the company. Zip2 was one of the first internet maps and directions services which made the 51-year-old a millionaire. The SpaceX later sold the company for roughly $300 million in 1999.
A picture of the Tesla chief's business card from 1995 is making the rounds on the Internet. The business card is of Musk's Zip2 company which provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers. The 51-year-old billionaire founded the company in 1995 along with his brothers, Kimbal Musk and Greg Kouri in Palo Alto.
The card has the basic business card layout with the company's logo and name on it along with Musk's name, on the right side.
It reads:
"Elon Musk
Chairman of the Board
Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder"
Elon Musk's Business Card from 1995 @elonmusk https://t.co/Uix0TMTgiS
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) 1657688339000It also has Musk's telephone, fax and official work email address.
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The picture of the old business card also caught the attention of Musk, who replied to the original tweet and called it "ancient times"."Remember this patent that you filed for Zip2 in 1996?! Pretty cool that you single-handedly wrote the entire code for drawing vector map & calculating point-to-point direction anywhere in the US (basically the first company to do so)," Pathole wrote.
Another person joked about those frantically calling on the number given on the business card.
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Musk was only 24 when he founded the company. Zip2 was one of the first internet maps and directions services which made the 51-year-old a millionaire. The SpaceX later sold the company for roughly $300 million in 1999.
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