Список проголосовавших за комментарий "Андрей Керш, <p>PayPal was established in December 1998 as <a title="Confinity" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FConfinity&s=3739570886">Confinity</a>,<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-techrepublic-13&s=2429958164">[13]</a></sup> a company that developed security software for handheld devices<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-entrepreneur-14&s=8367921">[14]</a></sup> founded by <a title="Max Levchin" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMax_Levchin&s=2112543967">Max Levchin</a>, <a title="Peter Thiel" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPeter_Thiel&s=1798870249">Peter Thiel</a>, <a title="Luke Nosek" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLuke_Nosek&s=3588361069">Luke Nosek</a> and <a title="Ken Howery" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FKen_Howery&s=2977002020">Ken Howery</a>.<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-techrepublic-13&s=2429958164">[13]</a></sup><sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-bizfounders-15&s=176385372">[15]</a></sup> PayPal was developed and launched as a money transfer service at Confinity in 1999, funded by John Malloy from BlueRun Ventures.<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-16&s=1300528601">[16]</a></sup><sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-CNBC-17&s=1130161413">[17]</a></sup></p><p>In March 2000, Confinity merged with <a title="X.com" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FX.com&s=1485538037">X.com</a>, an online banking company founded by <a title="Elon Musk" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FElon_Musk&s=452202591">Elon Musk</a>.<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-fastco2012-18&s=464099524">[18]</a></sup> Musk was optimistic about the future success of the money transfer business Confinity was developing.<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-elonmuskbiography-19&s=3934792877">[19]</a></sup> Musk and then-president and CEO of X.com, Harris Fricker, disagreed on this point and Fricker left the company in May 2000.<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-elonmuskbiography-19&s=3934792877">[19]</a></sup> In October of that year, Musk made the decision that X.com would terminate its other Internet banking operations and focus on the PayPal money service.<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-Startup_Playbook-20&s=2562344619">[20]</a></sup> In the same month, Elon Musk was replaced by Peter Thiel as CEO of X.com. The X.com company was then renamed PayPal in 2001,<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-fundinguniverse-21&s=414011160">[21]</a></sup> and expanded rapidly throughout the year until company executives decided to take PayPal <a class="mw-redirect" title="IPO" href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIPO&s=76710897">public</a> in 2002.<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-bizfounders-15&s=176385372">[15]</a></sup><sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-autogenerated1-22&s=3491097622">[22]</a></sup>Paypal's IPO listed under the ticker PYPL at $13 per share and ended up generating over $61 million.<sup><a href="/r.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPayPal%23cite_note-ecommerce02-23&s=1259148925">[23]</a></sup></p> "