• prole
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          2 months ago

          He fucking wishes… Just like Trump and his Apprentice bullshit, it’s just part of the mythos that he’s built about himself and people are stupid enough to believe it.

          After all, he’s rich so of course he’s smart and successful enough to innovate.

          • Syntha@sh.itjust.works
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            2 months ago

            Please actually read the article

            The company was originally established by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek in December 1998 as Fieldlink. Later it was renamed Confinity,[9] a company which developed security software for hand-held devices.[10] When it had no success with that business model, it switched its focus to a digital wallet.[11] The first version of the PayPal electronic payments system was launched in 1999.[12]

            In March 2000, Confinity merged with X.com, an online financial services company founded in March 1999 by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho.

            Musk founded a company that merged with the company that invented PayPal.