X.com (bank)

X.com
Company typePrivate
FoundedMarch 1999 (1999-03)
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Founders
  • Elon Musk
  • Harris Fricker
  • Christopher Payne
  • Ed Ho
Defunct2000 (2000)
FateMerged March 2000 with Confinity to form PayPal; URL reused in 2023 for Twitter rebrand to X
SuccessorPayPal
Websitex.com (archived)

X.com was an American online bank founded by Ed Ho, Harris Fricker, Elon Musk, and Christopher Payne in 1999 in Palo Alto, California. It merged with competitor Confinity in 2000 and the merged company changed its name to PayPal in 2001. Starting in 2023, the x.com internet domain name began to be used for Twitter, which was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022 and subsequently rebranded to X.


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