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Xichekolas on Jan 30, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: As a founder of PayPal, Elon Musk made $250 millio...

Was thinking the same. As I remember, Elon's X.com merged with PayPal, then Elon proceeded to oust the original PayPal founders and convert all the PayPal infrastructure from linux to windows (which was X.com's platform of choice). All this infighting went terribly, but I don't remember who ended up on top in the end.

I'm not saying Elon did nothing for PayPal, because it's still dominant, so he probably helped it grow, but calling him a 'Founder' is a bit of a stretch.

Shooter on Jan 31, 2009 [–]

Peter Thiel and Max Levchin ended up on top in the end. But they have since made up with Elon. (If Elon had 'won', Paypal would be on Windows and would be called X.com now.)

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