Here's how Musk used a successful startup called PayPal as a springboard for building a personal fortune that Forbes measures at over $400 billion.

Elon Musk, after a public fallout with Donald Trump, launched the America Party, aiming to disrupt the political landscape.

Elon Musk and son X arrive for a meeting with Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation members at the U.S. Capitol Building on May 21, 2025, in Washington.

In this 2000 photo, PayPal's Peter Thiel and founder Elon Musk, right, pose with the PayPal logo at corporate headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. (Paul Sakuma/AP) By Timothy Bella.

What's True. In 2000 Elon Musk was fired as CEO of X.com after it merged with software company Confinity, which featured PayPal as a service. In 2001, the company was rebranded to PayPal.

Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson's new book about the billionaire details his ouster as PayPal CEO by a group known as the "PayPal Mafia" who replaced him with Peter Thiel.

Elon Musk’s attempt to remake the Social Security system appears to be deeply informed by his time at a company that helped him become a leading figure in Silicon Valley: PayPal ().His tenure at ...

Elon Musk has established himself as an entrepreneurial maverick unafraid to make radical cuts. Here’s what his legacy at SpaceX, Tesla and X means for Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency.

There is an Elon Musk post on X, his social media platform, that should define his legacy. “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” he wrote on Feb. 3. He could have “gone ...

Elon Musk was not a household name in 1995, ... in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion, turning Elon Musk into a centimillionaire and a transformative figure of the digital age.