Elon Musk's father sold a yacht that cost $400,000 for $105,000, and a farm worth $800,000 for $234,000. Not at full price, and not for himself. To fund his sons' first company in 1995. By his own count, about $32,000 of it reached them. Zip2 later sold to Compaq for $37 million, and Elon's share came to $22 million. The 2 and a half minute recording attached to this post is Errol Musk telling it himself. The interviewer opens with the figure from the reports, $28,000, and says Elon claims he never gave him anything. Watch 0:31, when he puts a price on the yacht and the farm. Then the arithmetic. He sold about $339,000 of assets. He says about $45,000 went out, and his sons got about $30,000 of it. At 1:10 he is asked about the $28,000. He says he does not know where that figure comes from, and by his reckoning it was more like $32,000. When he asked what arrived, he says, they were too busy to tell him. His other son, Kimbal, he says, told him the money paid for food and rent for six months, and without it they would not have lasted. At 2:24 he says what came back after the sale: $200,000. The reports say $28,000. He says $32,000. Neither number is the dispute. One side says it saved them, the other says nothing came. I think both can be true. Next to a $22 million stake, $32,000 is small, and to two brothers paying rent it was six months. You do not need a famous son for this. Any money you hand to family without paper becomes two stories within a few years, each told honestly. Did the yacht money build Zip2, or did Elon build it alone?