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X.com

Online banking company founded by Elon Musk that merged with Confinity to form PayPal.

Acquired Founded 1999–2000 Palo Alto USA Fintech

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Acquired by PayPal.

Founders

8

B

C

Christopher Payne

E

E

Co-founder & CEO

E

H

J

N

Where its founders came from

3

The companies and labs that produced X.com’s founders.

Google Zip2 PayPal

The X.com diaspora

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People who worked at or founded X.com and went on to start their own companies.

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B

2 founded

Twitter 2006 Jelly 2013

E

14 founded

Zip2 1996 PayPal 1998 SpaceX 2002 Tesla 2003 Hyperloop One 2014 OpenAI 2015 Neuralink 2016 The Boring Company 2016 Thud 2017 xAI 2023 X Corp. 2023 SpaceXAI 2023 X Holdings Corp 2023 America PAC

E

4 founded

Blogger 1999 Pyra Labs 1999 Odeo 2005 Twitter 2006

J

6 founded

Twitter 2006 Square 2009 Cash App 2013 Bluesky Social PBC 2021 Bluesky 2021 Omacom Foundation 2026

J

Jeremy Stoppelman

1 founded

Yelp 2004

N

3 founded

Odeo 2005 Twitter 2006 Olo

R

1 founded

Yelp 2004

Acquisitions

1

AcquiredFounded 1998

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