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Confinity Inc. was an American software company based in Silicon Valley, best known as the creator of PayPal. It was founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin , Peter Thiel , and Luke Nosek , initially as a Palm Pilot payments and cryptography company.
Established in 1998 as Confinity, PayPal went public through an IPO in 2002. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay later that year, valued at $1.5 billion. In 2015 eBay spun off PayPal to its shareholders, and PayPal became an independent company again.
Oct 9, 2015 · Peter Thiel's startup was named Confinity, initially intended to create a way to send money between Palm Pilots. Both companies launched person-to-person payments toward the end of 1999; "PayPal...
Jan 2, 2020 · Instead, the company's initial name was Confinity, a company founded on the premise of low-cost, almost effortless digital payments for consumers and businesses.
Confinity, the company that would later launch the first version of PayPal, is founded by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, Yu Pan, Ken Howery, and Russel Simmons. The company idea is due to Max Levchin, and Thiel is initially interested only in being an investor, but Levchin convinces Thiel to become CEO of the company.
Feb 19, 2022 · The origin story starts with two other companies: Confinity, co-founded by Mr Thiel, which planned to build software to beam money between PalmPilots, then must-have devices for businessfolk;...
Jan 18, 2022 · PayPal is the highest valued digital payments platform in the world. It enables global commerce across multiple platforms and devices, bringing new buying opportunities to consumers and businesses across the globe.
