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The new company took PayPal's name. [13] Musk was its biggest shareholder and was appointed as its CEO. Started in 1998, PayPal enabled users with PalmPilots to send money to each other through the devices' infrared ports. [14] [15] Subsequently, PayPal developed to allow users to send money using email and the web. [15]
Musk’s involvement in X Money reflects his early career in fintech. He co-founded PayPal in 1999, making his new venture with X Money feel like a full-circle moment in his career.
Elon Musk made $175.8 million when PayPal was sold to eBay in October 2002. [9] He was first listed on the Forbes Billionaires List in 2012, with a net worth of $2 billion. [4] Musk paid $455 million in taxes on $1.52 billion of income between 2014 and 2018. [10] According to ProPublica, Musk paid no federal income taxes in 2018. [11]
The combined entity, initially called X.com, later changes its name to PayPal. PayPal adopts eBay as a key platform to grow its userbase, because of the need for an online payment system on eBay. eBay responds with its own payment service, Billpoint. PayPal competes fiercely with Billpoint, raises a large amount of money, and IPOs in February 2002.
A Philadelphia judge has explained why he didn't shut down Musk's $1M-a-day sweepstakes last week.
How did Elon Musk start making money? Elon Musk began building his fortune by starting the company Zip2. The company was acquired by Compaq in 1999 for $307 million, of which a 27-year-old Musk ...
Elon Reeve Musk (/ ˈ iː l ɒ n m ʌ s k /; born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and U.S. special government employee, best known for his key roles in Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX, and his ownership of Twitter. Musk is the wealthiest individual in the world; as of February 2025, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$397 billion.
WASHINGTON − Elon Musk, the world's richest man, abruptly stopped handing out $1 million checks to swing state voters in a controversial "lottery" on Wednesday, the same day news broke that the ...