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ca-pub-8661721898834303 "Pay Pal" redirects here. For the The Simpsons episode, see Pay Pal (The Simpsons). PayPal Holdings Inc. is an American company operating a worldwide online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders. The company operates as a payment processor for online vendors, auction sites, and many other commercial users, for which it charges a fee in exchange for benefits such as one-click transactions and password memory. PayPal's payment system, also called PayPal, is considered a type of payment rail. PayPal Holdings Inc. PayPal.svg Type of business Public Type of site Financial Available in Multilingual Traded as NASDAQ: PYPL NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 100 Component S&P 500 Component Founded December 1998; 20 years ago (as Confinity) November 1999; 19 years ago (as X.com) Predecessor(s) Confinity, X.com Headquarters 2211 North First Street San Jose, California U.S. Coordinates 37.3770°N 121.9226°W Area served Almost worldwide Founder(s) Ken Howery Luke Nosek Max Levchin Peter Thiel Yu Pan Russel Simmons Elon Musk (X.com founder) Key people John Donahoe (Chairman) Dan Schulman (President and CEO)[1] Industry Financial services Products Credit cards, payment systems Revenue Increase US$15.451 billion (2018)[2] Operating income Increase US$2.194 billion (2018)[3] Net income Increase US$2.057 billion (2018)[3] Total assets Increase US$43.332 billion (2018)[3] Total equity Decrease US$15.386 billion (2018)[3] Employees c. 21,800 (December 2018)[4] Parent eBay (2002–2015)[5] Divisions PayPal Inc (PPI) [6] PayPal Pte. Ltd (3PL) [6] PayPal Payments Pte. Holdings (PPLUX) [6] PayPal Payments Pte Limited (4PL) Subsidiaries Braintree Paydiant Venmo PayPal Credit Xoom Corporation TIO Networks card.io iZettle Tradera Website www.paypal.com Alexa rank Decrease 59 (August 2019)[7] Advertising No Registration Yes Users Increase 286 million (2019) Launched December 1998 Current status Active Native client(s) on Android iOS Windows Written in C++,[8] JavaScript (as Node.js),[9] Python[10] PayPal's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California eBay, PayPal, Kijiji and StubHub in Toronto Established in 1998 as Confinity,[11] PayPal had its initial public offering in 2002, and became a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay later that year.[12][13] eBay spun off PayPal in 2015.[14][6] The company ranked 222nd on the 2018 Fortune 500 of the largest United States corporations by revenue.[15]