PayPal Founded

DEC 1998

December 1998. Peter Thiel and Max Levchin found Confinity (Elon Musk's X.com merges 2000; rebrands as PayPal). eBay acquires for $1.5B in 2002. The "PayPal mafia" goes on to found LinkedIn, YouTube, SpaceX, Tesla, Yelp, Palantir, Reddit.