Fun facts about all that: Confinity had done what Musk couldn't - they had a working prototype and MVP called PayPal, trademarked and registered, at the merger.

Fun facts about all that: Confinity had done what Musk couldn't - they had a working prototype and MVP called PayPal, trademarked and registered, at the merger. Musk was made CEO because between the two companies, he had the largest holdings. He spent a lot of his time as CEO from March 2000 stubbornly trying to insist that this prototype (written in Java on Solaris) be completely thrown away and rewritten in ASP on Windows because he knew the latter and not the former. So much time, in fact, that by September 2000 the board had had enough and kicked him out as CEO. When people like to talk about Musk and PayPal (not saying you are), it's funny how neglected the fact that it was a whole 5 months from rise to fall.