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

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.

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

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.

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.

In 1999, Musk founded the payments company X.com, later renamed PayPal, before Musk was ousted as CEO. He repurchased the domain in 2017 and has been sitting on it ever since.

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 ...