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PayPal

COMPANY

Internet transaction service, founded 1998 in Palo Alto, California as "Confinity" by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin. It was acquired by Elon Musk's X.com, another Palo Alto startup, in 2000. X.com was renamed PayPal in 2001, and was acquired by eBay in 2002, after which eBay phased out its competitor service, Billpoint.

Official Website:
http://www.paypal.com/

Industry:
Finance

Ticker:
(subsidiary)

Corporate headquarters:
San Jose, CA

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Rajiv Dutta
Business
5-May-1960 31-Jan-2011 President of PayPal, 2006-08
Reid Hoffman
Business
5-Aug-1967   Co-Founder of LinkedIn
Max Levchin
Business
11-Jul-1975   Co-Founder of PayPal
Elon Musk
Business
28-Jun-1971   CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors
Peter Thiel
Business
11-Oct-1967   Co-Founder of PayPal
Scott Thompson
Business
13-Nov-1957   CEO of Yahoo!, 2012

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Reid Hoffman
Business
5-Aug-1967   Co-Founder of LinkedIn
Elon Musk
Business
28-Jun-1971   CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors

NOTABLE EMPLOYEES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Steve Chen
Business
1978   Co-Founder of YouTube
Chad Hurley
Business
1977   Co-Founder of YouTube

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Martin Hellman
Inventor
2-Oct-1945   Public key cryptographer


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