Elon Musk on building his first startup Zip2
In 1995, when he was just 23 years old, Elon dropped out of Stanford’s PhD program in physics to start Zip2 with his brother Kimbal Musk.
Elon personally wrote the first national maps, directions, yellow pages and white pages on the Internet that summer in C with a little C++.
In this CBS interview, a 27 year old Elon describes living in a $200/month office with a leaky roof:
“We found that an office was actually cheaper than apartment in Silicon Valley and we got this dinky little office that had a leaky roof. It was just the nastiest place you could imagine. I lived in it too and showered at the YMCA. This lasted for about three or four months, and the reason we chose this office — in addition to it being really cheap — was that there was an internet service provider on the floor below. So we were able to get really cheap internet access by drilling a hole in the floor and connecting to their server directly.”
In February 1999 — less than a year after this interview — Compaq would purchase Zip2 for $307 million in cash.
The interviewer also asks Elon what he thinks the future of the Internet will be, to which Elon responds:
“I think the internet is the superset of all media. It is the be all and end all of media. One will see print, broadcast, radio — essentially all media — folding into the internet. What the internet amounts to is it’s the first two-way communication medium that is intelligent. It allows consumers to choose what they want to see, when they want to see it.”
My sister,
@ToscaMusk
, is posting 10 minute teasers of
@PassionFlix
movies, with the full movie available to subscribers. I recommend taking this approach for text/image/video content on 𝕏.
Grok progress 2025:
• Grok 3 – February
• Grok 4 – July
• Grok Imagine – July
• Grok Code Fast 1 – August
• Grok 4 Fast – September
• Grokipedia – October
• Grok 4.1 – November
• Grok 4.1 Fast – November
• Grok Voice Agent API – December
GROK TURNS YOUR CAMERA INTO A VISUAL INTELLIGENCE TOOL
Finally, Grok made your phone smarter than your last five Google searches.
PIC BRAINS:
* Snap anything Grok explains it like you’re five
* Textbooks, receipts, street signs Grok eats it all
* Don’t type just talk Grok gets it instantly
* Voice plus vision equals full-blown AI sidekick
Time to give your camera something visually intelligent to do. Not only selfies!
Source: @xAI, Bloomberg
try this prompt in grok imagine.
prompt:
Hyper-detailed anime style, cinematic perspective, gritty and dramatic lighting, bold contrast with saturated colors. A low-angle tilted cinematic street-style shot of a parking lot, looking up at an anime girl holding a red motorcycle helmet in one hand and walking, as seen from behind. she wears white racing pants, a loose graphic t-shirt, a belt, and yellow boots, with the tread of one boot dominating the foreground in sharp detail. The perspective emphasizes the gritty, urban aesthetic with bold foreshortening. Infront of him, a red streetbike.
🇺🇸 TESLA DINER LAUNCHES MINI CYBERTRUCK RACETRACK FOR KIDS. BUILT CIRCLING THE NEW MODEL Y FOR KIDS
Tesla Diner lit up the night with a epic setup:
A tire-lined mini racetrack looping around a shiny red Model Y Performance, where kids got to zoom around in tiny Cybertrucks like little speed demons.
The big screen glows and Superchargers in the backdrop.
Pure Tesla magic turning a charging stop into a playground bash.
Source: @BLKMDL3
SpaceX is constructing a $250 million GigaBay at Starbase to accelerate Starship production
The 700,000-square-foot facility is designed to build up to 1,000 rockets per year