Startups that Succeeded by Change in Business
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PayPal
The current incarnation of PayPal is the result of the merger between two companies specializing in financial services, X.com, and cryptography, Confinity. PayPal originated as a way to exchange money via Palm Pilots. Peter Thiel, one of the co-founders, saw the potential to solve a much larger problem - an easy way to transfer money online.
After the company secured a relationship with eBay, it was soon handling over 50 percent of eBay transactions before being acquired by them in 2002 for $1.5 billion.