[FireBeyond]

> in darling paypal days

Not even. Musk had a company which had plans for an online bank (can you imagine?) but it wasn't working out so well. So his company merged with one that was in the process of creating PayPal (trademarked, prototype in place)...

Musk was the largest shareholder of the combined companies, so he was made CEO...

And promptly spent four months complaining that the working prototype needed to be thrown away, because it was written in Java on Solaris, and he didn't understand it, and he wanted it rewritten in Classic ASP on Windows.

Four months, because at that point, the board, lead by Peter Thiel had had enough of it and removed him as CEO.

That was the extent of Musk's tenure at PayPal.