Elon Musk is credited with creating PayPal, but he didn't actually create the product. He started a company called Zip2 that was like putting the yellow pages on the internet. The plan for X.com was to be everybody's full financial life: banking, mortgages, loans and sending money. It was only when they essentially booted him out of his company did PayPal take off.

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