X.com

He slept in his first office at Zip2.

He slept under a desk at X.com.

He slept on the Tesla factory floor during the Model 3 production crunch and on a couch at Twitter headquarters after he bought it.

But this time he didn't sleep under a desk.

I just get to do the fun things.

But either way, he decided not to go to college and he's a quote unquote, a entrepreneur, which most of the time just means unemployed but yeah so he was quote unquote an entrepreneur and he was starting like 58 000 companies man look you're not elon musk you can't run three four or five companies successfully at a one time right try and get one to work in the first place like you think elon musk started doing six companies in a row that all worked no look up x.com, which will go to PayPal, which PayPal mafia, very interesting saga.

You should look into it.

But anyways, right.

But the thing is, right, Jeff's aunt was totally out of it.

Like, she was totally out of it.

Like, she was about to excuse herself to bed in a fast second.

So she was not a...

Enter stage right, Elon Musk.

So Musk had just sold his first startup for $307 million and he walked away with $22 million and he put $10 million of that into a new company called X.com. And the idea behind X.com was much bigger than PayPal.

Like Musk wanted an online bank where customers could hold money, use a current account and invest.

Basically, he wanted to disrupt the entire banking system.

And Thiel realized this couldn't continue.

So he pushed for a merger between both companies.

And Bill Harris, who was CEO of X.com, agreed with Thiel.

And just as a side note, you see, Musk wanted to focus on strategy and product development.

Musk's cut was about $22 million.

And the same year, he co-founds X.com. And no, not that X. We'll get into that.

This is an online banking startup, which merges with a company called Confinity to become...

Drumroll, please.