Elon Musk applied for a job at Netscape but was unable to do so.
Elon Musk is best known today as the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, but long before he made a name for himself in the tech world, he was working on weird 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 turn him into 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 graduating. He never got it and therefore set up his own Internet company Zip2, as “he wasn’t able to get a job anywhere,” the Twitter user wrote.
In response to the statement on Twitter, Mr. Musk, 49, clarified that he could get a job in the 1990s, simply not in an internet company because there weren’t too many at the time.
“I could get a job, just not in an internet company (back then there weren’t many),” Elon Musk wrote.
I could get a job, not in an internet company (there weren’t many then)
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 21, 2021
His tweet has garnered more than 11,000 “likes” and hundreds of reactions
Eon Musk: I couldn’t get a job. I started my own business … https://t.co/eqU2UesB3H
– Agrim Jain (@ 14agrim) April 21, 2021
Now I bet they would want you hired.
– Ali del Ramadan Mubarak (@ Ali_Tesla585) April 21, 2021
moral of the story: do you have to be shy to be very successful ???????? https://t.co/aLfegjZB8X
– Muhammad Ruwaif Fakerdey (@Muhammad_Ruwaif) April 21, 2021
According to CNBC, Elon Musk revealed in 2012 that he had tried to get a job at Netscape because he had been interested in the nascent Internet. Netscape is the company that created the first web browser, Netscape Navigator.
“In fact, I tried to spend some time at the [Netscape] lobby, but he was too shy to talk to anyone. So I’m like being in the lobby, “he said.” It was pretty embarrassing. “
In the early 1990s, Mr. Musk also had a brief stint in the gaming industry. It sold its first Zip2 company to Compaq for about $ 300 million in 1999.
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