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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known 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

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Steve Chen	Business	1978		Co-Founder of YouTube
Chad Hurley	Business	1977		Co-Founder of YouTube

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Martin Hellman	Inventor	2-Oct-1945		Public key cryptographer

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