Relevant wikipedia entry: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com</a><p>> X.com was an online bank co-founded by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho in March 1999.[1] In March 2000, X.com merged with Confinity Inc., a software company based in Silicon Valley. Musk was attracted to Confinity because of its easy payment system. The merged company changed its name to PayPal. eBay bought PayPal for US$1.5 billion in 2002.[2] In July 2015, PayPal was spun off and became an independent company.[3]