X.com and PayPal

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X.com was an online bank started by Elon Musk in November, 1999.

X.com and PayPal

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I guess he didn’t code at paypal which confused me because i really thought he did so i was wondering what did he do?

How Was The Rivalry Between Paypal And X.com Before And After The Merger? This question was originally answered on Quora by Julie Ankenbrandt.

His reach is astounding. And he even has some failures under his belt.

Elon Musk, the founder and chief executive of the company, which operates booming money-transferring site PayPal, is preparing to step down from the helm.

The appearance of Elon Musk in the hall of fame on Sequoia Capital's website, and rapid disappearance, gave us the excuse to write about the colorful entrepreneur. The South African entrepreneur is now off the Silicon Valley scene, devoting himself to a grandiose mission to colonize space. But he was one of the iconic figures of the last internet boom, selling Zip2 and plunging straight into a new venture which he cannily merged with Paypal. Even his failures were successes. Musk, who has a liking for fast cars as well as fast spaceships, was too good a target to miss. In a 2,256-word response to the Valleywag items, after the jump, Musk explains how he stayed friends with the Paypal crew — even after Peter Thiel, one of the founders, funded a hostile account of the company's history. "Peter sounds like Mel Gibson in Braveheart and my role is somewhere between negligible and a bad seed." For more:

In March 1999, Elon Musk made X.com with Peter Thiel. X.com was an online financial and email services company.

PayPal started trading as a separate company Monday. The company, spun-off from eBay, was actually co-founded by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.