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Confinity

Former American software company

Field	Value
name	Confinity
logo	Confinity logo.png
industry	Software industry
fate	Merged with X.com, form PayPal
successor	PayPal, Inc.
founded
founders	Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek
defunct
hq_location_city	Champaign County, Illinois
hq_location_country	United States
products	PayPal

Confinity Inc. was an American software company based in Silicon Valley, best known as the creator of PayPal. It was founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek, initially as a PalmPilot payments and cryptography company.

Company

The company was launched in 1998 as Fieldlink and later renamed Confinity. Many of Confinity's initial recruits were alumni of The Stanford Review, also co-founded by Thiel, and most early engineers hailed from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recruited by Levchin. Early investors included Nokia Ventures, Deutsche Bank, and William N. Melton, the founder of CyberCash.

Confinity's second office, 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto, California, is also known for being the former office of Google and Logitech.

Confinity launched its milestone product, PayPal, in late 1999. Confinity merged with X.com, founded by Elon Musk, in March 2000. The merged company became known as X.com because this was thought to be a name with broader long-term potential than Confinity or PayPal.

PayPal made an Initial Public Offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange on February 14, 2002. The company was purchased by eBay in a $1.3 billion stock deal announced on July 8, 2002. eBay and PayPal became separate companies in 2015.

References

Lillington, Karlin. "PayPal Puts Dough in Your Palm".
Odell, Mark. (30 September 2014). "Timeline: The rise of PayPal".
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https://www.newspapers.com/image/753758455/?match=1&terms=x.com%20paypal
"PayPal IPO raises $70.2M - Feb. 14, 2002".
"EBay Buys PayPal in $1.3B Stock Deal".
(2014-09-30). "EBay follows Icahn's advice, plans PayPal spinoff in 2015". Reuters.

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