Elon Musk is a name that defines innovation and entrepreneurship in the 21st century. From founding Zip2 to building the groundbreaking electric cars at Tesla, Musk has shaped industries and ...

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The US Department of the Treasury is accepting donations from Americans who use Venmo and PayPal to reduce the $36.7 trillion ...

Two years later, in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion, turning Elon Musk into a centimillionaire and a transformative figure of the digital age.

In 2000 Elon Musk was fired as CEO of X.com after it merged with software company Confinity, which featured PayPal as a service. In 2001, the company was rebranded to PayPal.

Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson's new book about the billionaire details his ouster as PayPal CEO by a group known as the "PayPal Mafia" who replaced him with Peter Thiel.

In 1999, Musk founded the payments company X.com, later renamed PayPal, before Musk was ousted as CEO. He repurchased the domain in 2017 and has been sitting on it ever since.

Elon Musk’s attempt to remake the Social Security system appears to be deeply informed by his time at a company that helped him become a leading figure in Silicon Valley: PayPal (PYPL).