Elon Musk
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X.com, PayPal, and Early Entrepreneurship

This timeline covers Musk's involvement in X.com, the formation of PayPal, and his early entrepreneurial ventures.
Co-founding of X.com
March 1999
Musk co-founded X.com, a financial services and payments company that later merged with Confinity to form PayPal.
Merger and Formation of PayPal
2000
X.com merged with Confinity to form PayPal, which became a leading online payment system.
Sale of PayPal
2002
eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion. Musk used $100 million from the sale to found SpaceX.