Elon Musk: “X.com way back in the day, which kind of became PayPal.”

“And if we could have a single database that was real time and secure that would be more efficient from an information theory standpoint than a large number of heterogeneous databases that batch process Very slowly and securely. So that was sort of X.com way back in the day, which kind of became PayPal. and then. And it was acquired by ebay. And then ebay. Someone reached out from ebay and said, hey, do you want to buy the domain name back?” (37:59–38:05)

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