Maybe he was rich maybe not, but this is what Elon has to say: > “One thing he [Musk's father] claims is he gave us a whole bunch of money to start, my brother

Maybe he was rich maybe not, but this is what Elon has to say: > “One thing he [Musk's father] claims is he gave us a whole bunch of money to start, my brother and I, to start up our first company [Zip2, which provided online city guides to newspapers]. This is not true,” Musk says. “He was irrelevant. He paid nothing for college. My brother and I paid for college through scholarships, loans and working two jobs simultaneously. The funding we raised for our first company came from a small group of random angel investors in Silicon Valley.” [0] Errol invested between 20-30k well after Zip2 was on it's way and they closed a huge round weeks after. His father took credit for helping him but the Musk brothers strongly deny it [0], and Elon literally slept in the office and showered in the local YMCA to get off the ground [1] Even Elon's wiki page misreports this, but the Zip2 wiki page has it right. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200817165150/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-the-architect-of-tomorrow-120850/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200817165150/https://www.rolli... [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-of-elon-musk-2016-7#while-zip2-got-off-the-ground-musk-literally-lived-in-the-office-and-showered-at-a-local-ymca-the-hard-work-paid-off-when-compaq-bought-zip2-in-a-deal-worth-341-million-in-cash-and-stock-earningmusk-22-million-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/the-rise-of-elon-musk-2016-7...