From Stanford Dropout to PayPal Co-Founder to SpaceX #shorts

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Two days into your physics program at Stanford University, you quit school to start a company called Zip to a media company, >> right?

[00:00:07]>> Uh which you sold a few years later for a poultry $37 million. Then four years later, um eBay buys PayPal. Is that correct? A company that you established or helped to establish as one of the few others. Yeah.

[00:00:21]>> Um and now you've taken those two enormous successes and you've set your ambition on space. How did you go from online payment systems to building a spaceship essentially?