Elon Musk creates X.com >
Elon Musk creates X.com > Elon Musk & Peter Thiel turn X.com into Paypal > PayPal is sold to Ebay > Elon Musk creates SpaceX > OpenCoin develops Ripple protocol > 16z invests in OpenCoin > OpenCoin becomes Ripple > Elon Musk & Peter Thiel, a16z invest in Stripe > CTO of OpenCoin, Jed McCaleb develop