Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford lecture: 7 rules behind building Zip2 and PayPal
elonmusk · x · 2026-10-08
A resurfaced 2003 video: after selling Zip2 for $307M, Musk told a Stanford lecture hall how he built Zip2 and PayPal with almost no money, laying out 7 operating rules — starting with "product is the only real marketing."
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