Highlights Musk also briefly worked in the gaming story for a while in the early nineties. After the rejection at Netscape, Musk kicked off Zip2. Who doesn’t know Elon Musk now? The billionaire is the head of firms such as Tesla and SpaceX, among others. But there was a time in the nineties when he too struggled to find a job, and waited in the lobby of a firm for hours to get employment in the world of technology. Interestingly, Musk was rejected for a role at Netscape in 1995. At that time, he wanted to work for a technology firm, and Netspace was among the few names known for their advancements in internet technology. In fact, Netscape is the company that created the first web browser known as Netscape Navigator.