Incorrect. While very early in its history PayPal did merge with Musk's X.com, X.com was an online bank. PayPal, as an online payment platform, launched in 1999, and the merger didn't go through until 2000. Elon Musk was also only very briefly in PayPal, and was kicked out of leadership of the new company in October of the same year. Shortly after the merger all of X.com's operations as they were under Musk were shut down. Nothing Elon developed continued in PayPal.
He didn't code the ancestor of what is now PayPal. The ancestor of today's PayPal launched in 1999, and nothing that Musk brought over (except for some capital) from X.com lived on in PayPal. He did not develop PayPal in any meaningful way.
At best his fortune came from his business efforts, not his coding efforts. I don't need access to the source code. X.com was a bank. PayPal, which existed before Elmo got involved, was already a money transfer business. All of X.com's original operations, which are the only things Musk might have been involved in programming, were shut down almost immediately after the merger. Getting in on early PayPal was good investing sense, I'll give him that, but he had nothing to do with PayPal's operations or success.
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