Who doesn’t know Elon Musk now? The billionaire is the head of companies corresponding to Tesla and SpaceX, amongst others. But there was a time in the nineties when he too struggled to discover a job, and waited in the foyer of a agency for hours to get employment in the world of know-how.
Interestingly, Musk was rejected for a function at Netscape in 1995. At that point, he needed to work for a know-how agency, and Netspace was amongst the few names identified for his or her developments in internet know-how. In truth, Netscape is the firm that created the first net browser referred to as Netscape Navigator.
However, after the rejection at Netscape, Musk kicked off Zip2 that made him make a fortune. The startup was bought to Compaq at a jaw-dropping $300 million in 1999.
Besides the failed try at getting a job at Netscape, Musk additionally briefly labored in the gaming story for a whereas in the early nineties. Anyways, on Tuesday, a Twitter consumer introduced up the story of how Musk was rejected at Netscape.
“In 1995, @elonmusk wanted to work with an Internet company, he applied to work at Netscape, sent his resume, tried hanging out in their lobby, but he was too shy to talk to anyone. So he started his own Internet company (Zip2) as he wasn’t able to get a job anywhere,” he tweeted.
In his response to the tweet, Musk defined that he might have gotten a job simply in the nineties, simply not at an internet firm. He additional clarified that at that point, there have been a handful of internet companies again then. “I could get a job, just not at an Internet company (weren’t many back then),” Musk tweeted.
Like his every other tweet, Musk’s reply is now a sensation on Twitter, with over 45k likes and hundreds of retweets. “I actually tried hanging out in the [Netscape] lobby, but I was too shy to talk to anyone. So I’m just like standing in the lobby,” he mentioned in his e book. “It was pretty embarrassing.”
