In 1995, a twenty-four-year-old student dropped out of Stanford after two days.
The department told him the door would stay open if he failed.
Elon said, "I can't just sit here and watch the internet happen."
With two thousand dollars, the brothers rented a tiny office and lived in it.
Elon and his brother Kimbal slept in the office at night.
They owned only one cheap computer to run their new business.
Their company, Zip2, created an online city guide with interactive maps.
The website ran by day, and Elon coded all night long.
He showered at the local YMCA because the office had no shower.
Newspapers like The New York Times became Zip2's customers.
In 1999, Compaq bought Zip2 for three hundred seven million dollars.
At twenty-seven, Elon suddenly held twenty-two million dollars in cash.
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