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1998 CE

PayPal

Peter Thiel & Elon Musk

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Max Levchin build Confinity/X.com into PayPal — the first major digital payments platform, acquired by eBay and later spawning Silicon Valley's 'PayPal Mafia' of founders.

AchievementBusiness1998 CE

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