Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

I'll try to make this as interesting as possible.

If you like space, you'll like this talk.

So, uh, my background—uh, in brief—I'll talk a little bit about Zip 2.

And uh and PayPal.

Uh, and then uh mostly about space and what we're doing in space.

Um, so I originally came out of California to do energy physics at Stanford.

Actually, um, and ended up putting this on hold in '95 to start Zip 2.

Um, and Zip 2—I'll tell you a little bit about the thought process of exactly what happened there.

Um, in '95, it wasn't at all clear that the internet was going to be a big commercial thing.

In fact, most of the venture capitalists that I talked to hadn't even heard of the internet—which sounds bizarre—on Sand Hill Road.