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Harold Schwartz (March 13, 1910 – December 22, 2003) was an American businessman and real estate developer who along with his son, H. Gary Morse, founded the active adult retirement community The Villages, Florida.
Morse was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Mary Louise (née Lee) and Harold Schwartz, who later moved to Arizona. [1] His father was Jewish. [2] After his parents divorced, Mary Louise married Clifford Morse (Morse would later take his stepfather's surname) and moved to Central Lake, Michigan.
eBay, PayPal, Kijiji and StubHub, 500 King Street West, Toronto, April 2014. PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.
Peter Andreas Thiel (/ t iː l /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [1] [2] [3] A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook.
PayPal is acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in eBay stock. The product and userbase grow steadily, faster than the parent company eBay. mid-2010 – September 2014: PayPal moves aggressively into new territory, including micropayments, mobile payments, in-store payments, international expansion, and more tools for small and medium businesses ...
Thiel cofounded Palantir and opened Founders Fund. Sacks cofounded Craft Ventures. Max Levchin, another PayPal original, founded Affirm while yet another, Roelof Botha, now runs Sequoia Capital.
Bernard L. Schwartz (1925–2024), ... Ukrainian-born co-founder of PayPal and financial technology company Affirm; member of the "PayPal Mafia" [168] [185]
Confinity launched its milestone product, PayPal, in late 1999. [1] Confinity merged with X.com, founded by Elon Musk, in March 2000. [6] The merged company became known as X.com because this was thought to be a name with broader long-term potential than Confinity or PayPal.