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1 PAYPAL, WHOSE EARLY executives included Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, disrupted the existing payments infrastructure soon after its founding in 1998. Through its digital wallet, it removed the headache of having to type in credit or debit card numbers for every online purchase.

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