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The Dot Com Boom: Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk Walk into the Fire and Create PayPal (Part 4)

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Imagine starting a company to change the world of finance right before an epic stock market crash.

Elon Musk famously said that PayPal wasn’t a hard company to create. It was a hard company to keep alive.

In 1999, three future titans of technology—Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk—charge straight into the blaze to bring payments and finance into the internet age. This is the story of how…