X.com, every mention
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every year anyone Jeremy Stoppelman 12Guy Raz 7Max Levchin 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where X.com comes up
PayPal: Max Levchin (Part 1 of 2)
- ▶ 1:00:58 Guy Raz I, and, and what, what was going on, but there was a, another, I guess, competing company that was founded around the same time called x.com by Elon Musk. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:05 Guy Raz And from what, everything I've read about, and there's a new book, of course, about PayPal and all the people who came out of, out of it, um, was that he really kind of saw this as X.com was the sort of the, the senior partner in this…
- ▶ 1:07:51 Max Levchin And that's, by the way, sort of the root of all complexity at paypalx.com story is that because we sort of settled on this, well, there's not really a senior partner.
How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp
Yelp: Jeremy Stoppelman
- ▶ 6:33 Jeremy Stoppelman So, you know, one of the startups that I agreed to, to meet was one called x.com. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:50 Jeremy Stoppelman Someone would win an auction on eBay, they'd want to pay, and at that time, there weren't a lot of really fast, efficient, easy online options, and so X.com filled that gap, and then also Confinity, which was running the PayPal service,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 Jeremy Stoppelman Um, after PayPal was bought by eBay, especially since I'd gone through a merger, X.com and PayPal, that was pretty traumatic, frankly.