X.com (bank)

X.com

Company type	Private
Founded	March 1999; 26 years ago (1999-03) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Founders	Elon Musk Harris Fricker Christopher Payne Ed Ho
Defunct	March 2000; 25 years ago (March 2000)
Fate	Merged with Confinity
Successor	PayPal (banking activities) X (URL usage)
Website	x.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2000-04-08)

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X.com was an American online bank founded by Ed Ho, Harris Fricker, Elon Musk, and Christopher Payne in 1999 in Palo Alto, California. It merged with competitor Confinity in 2000 and the merged company changed its name to PayPal in 2001. Starting in 2023, the x.com domain began to be used for Twitter, which was acquired by Elon Musk in 2022 and subsequently rebranded to X.