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PayPal
PayPal democratized digital payments by enabling secure transfers between people and businesses.
Founding of PayPal, year 1998
Themes: trust, safety, accessibility, innovation.
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The origin
What the date says
- Milestone
- Founding of PayPal
- What happened
- Peter Thiel and Max Levchin created Confinity in 1998 to develop mobile cryptography, and its payment system ended up transforming digital finance.
- Year
- 1998
- Source
- Historical documentation
- Note
- Founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel and Luke Nosek as Confinity.
Only the year is documented: if it falls between January 21 and February 21, the sign could be the previous one.
Keep in mind
Affinity is a symbolic reading from the Chinese zodiac tradition, not a measurement: it compares the sign of the year you were born with that of each entry's year of origin.