How the Richest Men in Tech Got Their Start at PayPal

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Chapters:
0:00 The PayPal Connection
0:17 Max Levchin Escapes the USSR
1:09 Meeting Peter Thiel
3:22 Elon Musk’s Early Hustle
4:37 The Birth of X.com
5:58 PayPal vs. X.com: The War Begins
7:11 The Reluctant Merger
8:20 Musk is Fired
9:20 Fight Against Fraud
9:54 Going Public
11:07 Today’s Sponsor: DeleteMe

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Image of Max Levchin: By TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsImage of Peter Thiel: TechCrunch50-2008, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Trading room: By Raiffeisenverband Salzburg reg. Gen. m. b. H., Schwarzstr. 13-15, 5024 Salzburg - Raiffeisenverband Salzburg reg. Gen. m. b. H., Schwarzstr. 13-15, 5024 Salzburg (transferred from de:Image:RVS Handelsraum.jpg), CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cubberley Auditorium at Stanford: BrokenSphere, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
CryptoCard security token: Brian Ronald, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Palm Pilot 5000: BarsMonster on YouTube, Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL0YLuClysY
Elon Musk 2008 images: OnInnovation CC by ND-2.0 via Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/oninnovation/4334978294/in/album-72157623364617582/
David Sacks image: By Robert Scoble from Half Moon Bay, California, USA - https://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/5435256332/, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Wall Street: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Image of Peter Thiel: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
New York Stock Exchange: By TomasEE, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
eBay building in San Jose: Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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