Elon Musk is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time, and he achieved his success at a young age. Musk became a millionaire at the age of 27, and he used his newfound wealth to fund X.com, which eventually became PayPal.
In 1995, Musk co-founded Zip2, a web software company, with his brother Kimbal. The company was sold to Compaq in 1999 for $307 million, and Musk earned $22 million from the sale. He then used over $11 million from that payout to fund X.com, an online financial services and e-mail payment company. X.com merged with Confinity in 2000, and the company was renamed PayPal.
In 2002, PayPal was sold to eBay for $1.5 billion, and Musk earned $180 million from the sale. This made him one of the wealthiest people in the world at the time.
Since then, Musk has gone on to become a successful entrepreneur in many other fields. He is the founder and CEO of SpaceX, a space exploration company, and Tesla, an electric vehicle and energy storage company. He also founded The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company, and Neuralink, a neurotechnology company.
At the age of 27, Elon Musk became a multi-millionaire and used his newfound wealth to fund some of the most successful companies of our time. His success is a testament to the power of hard work and dedication, and it is an inspiration to entrepreneurs everywhere.