Elon Musk, co-founder of Zip2, founder of X.com which merged with Confinity to form PayPal. Musk later bought a controlling share in Tesla Motors, founded SpaceX, OpenAI, Neuralink, and The Boring Company, and purchased Twitter (rebranded as X).

Nov 11, 2023 · He learned valuable skills in security, payments, and scalable web architectures during his time there. In 2000, Confinity merged with its primary competitor, X.com. X.com was founded by Elon Musk in 1999 as an online financial services company. Following the merger, the joint entity was renamed PayPal.

Aug 6, 2023 · As a member of the PayPal Mafia and a co-founder of YouTube, Steve Chen has worked alongside many high-profile people, such as Elon Musk, Jawed Karim, Peter Thiel, Jeremy Stoppelman, Chad Hurley, and Luke Nosek.

Sep 20, 2014 · Role in PayPal: Designed and implemented PayPal's incendiary real-time anti-fraud system, among other key components of the business. After PayPal: Karim, Chad Hurley (designer of PayPal's first...

Dec 24, 2020 · YouTube's founders worked together at PayPal during the early days. YouTube founders Steve Chen, left, and Chad Hurley. Noah Berger/AP. When it was founded: 2005. What it does: YouTube is a...

Nov 19, 2020 · Some of the most prominent members include Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. Members of the group have built many unicorn startups, which are...

Sep 20, 2014 · After PayPal: Karim, Chad Hurley (designer of PayPal’s first logo) and Steve Chen (another PayPal colleague and early Facebook employee) founded a video sharing site in 2005. They named it...

Nov 24, 2019 · Elon Musk founded a payments company called X.com, which merged with Thiel's Confinity in 2000. He was named CEO of PayPal, but it didn't last.

20 hours ago · Federal agencies have offered exits to millions of employees and tested the prowess of engineers — just like when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The similarities have been uncanny.

Dec 7, 2024 · The PayPal Mafia includes tech titans like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Reid Hoffman. Here's where its members are now.