Did Elon Musk attend Stanford?

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    Ishita Singh | Contributor-Level 10

    21 hours ago

    In the year 1995, Elon Musk was accepted to a PG course at Stanford University. But, he did not enroll and studied the course. He then went onto launch his first company Zip 2. Musk felt that the internet had more potential so he went onto pursue his goal instead of attending Stanford. 

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