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Elon Musk was already obsessed with the letter X a long time ago. Her particular fixation with her has a lot to do with nostalgia And with a 1999 waitressbut the truth is that this letter was already the germ of something very big.
In fact, in March 1999 We had a first version of X.com. It was very different, and Musk’s goal was not to change Twitter’s name – which did not exist at that time – but to create a financial startup.
The funny thing is that the offices of X.com were glued to those of Confinity, the company co -founded by Peter Thiel with a similar objective. After a while competing, both decided that it was best to join forces, and from that alliance PayPal was born.
That at first he did not curb, but that he ended up doing it with some “thugs” techniques and with the work of one of the teams with the greatest talent in history. Those boys, yes, soon realized that they wanted to be their own bosses. When Ebay bought PayPal in 2002the mission, leadership and objectives no longer convinced those engineers.
So they decided to ride it on their own.
AND This is how the famous “Paypal Mafia” was borna group of entrepreneurs who fled from PayPal with counting and sound money and who used it to found their own projects.
Thiel set up his Founders Fund and Palantir, Elon Musk launched Tesla or Spacex, and other employees ended up joining each other or founding their own mega projects: YouTube, LinkedIn or Yelp are among them. The conclusion: Paypal was the germ of an entire Internet revolutionbecause these services began to change our conception of the network of networks.
That is the central theme of Crossover 1×13an episode that is always led by Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia and that brings a few fun sections. We have images generated by the converted into videos and “plausible technological lies” that will surely generate debate. We hope you enjoy it!
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