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		SEJeff on April 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tesla’s First-Quarter Deliveries Plummet He also did zip2 (to fund x.com which he sold and became paypal), which was essentially one of the first online phone books / business directories.

dustindiamond on April 4, 2019 [–]

Copyright infringement from a purchased CD-ROM.

He is good.

bleriot on April 4, 2019 | [–]

I agree that zip2 was not a great accomplishment aside from making money, but it certainly wasn’t copyright infringement.

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