The Nerds Who Took on the Global Banks (And Won)

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Late 1990s. A 28-year-old named Elon Musk throws $12 million at “X.com.”
Across town, two Stanford dropouts are beaming cash between PalmPilots.
Their brutal turf war—complete with coups, fistfights, and exploding servers—will morph into PayPal… and mint the most feared “mafia” in tech history.

In this video, we peel back the duct tape to show how caffeine-fueled chaos, fraud-fighting A.I., and one very ill-timed South-African vacation rewired global finance—and why the shockwaves still power everything from Tesla to LinkedIn.

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