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softdev12 on Nov 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Startup That Built Google’s First Self-Driving...

Technically, I don't think Musk was the founder of Paypal either. I think he founded x.com, which merged with Confinity (the company founded by Max Levchin and Peter Thiel - who had started PayPal).

smaddali on Nov 20, 2014 | [–]

Regarding Elon Musk being considered as PayPal Co-founder or not. Here is Elon Musk's take on that http://gawker.com/230076/an-alternate-history-according-to-e...

zeeshanm on Nov 20, 2014 | [–]

Yes - there is a good documentation of this story in "The Paypal Wars"

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