Very strange: I always thought that PayPal had only two co-founders (I know them personally): Max Levchin and Peter Thiel, and X.com that was merged with PayPal had only one founder, Elon Musk?
Correct, Max and Peter founded Confinity, Elon founded X.com. The two companies merged and those three are considered PayPal's three co-founders. The HN headline is inaccurate and in fact the linked article's headline is correct: "Gregory Anthony Kouri, early PayPal investor, dies at 51". So just a bad submission.
