In 1995, a twenty-four-year-old student dropped out of Stanford after two days.

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.

He showered at the local YMCA because the office had no shower.

In 1999, Compaq bought Zip2 for three hundred seven million dollars.

At twenty-seven, Elon suddenly held twenty-two million dollars in cash.