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Taboo · 08-15-2004, 04:44 PM

i took a trip down memory lane and google'd X.com + idealab (they helped incubate/fund this and other (in)famous DOTCOMs:

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April 5, 2000
X.com Announces $100 Million Financing Round
http://www.paypal.com/html/pr-040500.html

blah blah blah

About X.com

X.com Corporation provides an instant and secure email payment service, integrated with consumer and business financial services. With a customer base of over 1 million, X.com is the largest web-based payment network on the Internet, and the number-one method of payment for online auctions. X.com Corporation is headed by Elon Musk, who previously founded Internet media company Zip2 in 1995, which he sold last year for over $300 million to AltaVista, now a division of CMGI. Bill Harris, formerly CEO of Intuit, joined X.com last fall as CEO and President. Last month, X.com merged with PayPal.com, the leading email payment service. PayPal.com CEO Peter Thiel is now Executive Vice President of X.com Corporation.
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lol. i miss those days. $300M for Zip2. LOL.
glad those days may be coming back soon.

08-15-2004, 04:44 PM
Taboo Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: I'd rather be networking than not working. Posts: 3,700	i took a trip down memory lane and google'd X.com + idealab (they helped incubate/fund this and other (in)famous DOTCOMs: /// April 5, 2000 X.com Announces $100 Million Financing Round http://www.paypal.com/html/pr-040500.html blah blah blah About X.com X.com Corporation provides an instant and secure email payment service, integrated with consumer and business financial services. With a customer base of over 1 million, X.com is the largest web-based payment network on the Internet, and the number-one method of payment for online auctions. X.com Corporation is headed by Elon Musk, who previously founded Internet media company Zip2 in 1995, which he sold last year for over $300 million to AltaVista, now a division of CMGI. Bill Harris, formerly CEO of Intuit, joined X.com last fall as CEO and President. Last month, X.com merged with PayPal.com, the leading email payment service. PayPal.com CEO Peter Thiel is now Executive Vice President of X.com Corporation. /// lol. i miss those days. $300M for Zip2. LOL. glad those days may be coming back soon.