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The above graph represents the number of PayPal active customer accounts by year. As of December 31, 2019, PayPal has approximately 305 million active customer accounts, across more than 200 markets. That’s nearly 14% YoY increase in PayPal active accounts, globally. Out of the total 305 million accounts, 281 million are consumer active accounts and 24 million are merchant active accounts.
| Region | Worldwide |
| Source | PayPal Annual Reports |
| Graph ID | 333 |
| Note | PayPal fiscal year starts from January 1st |
PayPal Active Accounts: Additional Information
An active PayPal customer account is a registered account that successfully sent or received at least one payment or payment reversal through the Payments Platform, not including the gateway-exclusive transactions, in the past 12 months.
The number of PayPal active accounts has doubled, from 123 million in 2012 to 267 million in 2018.
About PayPal Holdings, Inc.
Founded in December 1998 as Confinity Inc., by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery, PayPal Holding Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) was funded by John Malloy from BlurRun ventures.
However, it was March 2000, when Confinity merged with X.com, an online banking company founded by Elon Musk in November 1999. The visionary Musk was quick to visualise the future potential of the money transfer business Confinity was developing. In contrast to that, Bill Harris, the then-president and CEO of X.com, didn’t find much merit in Musk’s thoughts. Soon, Harris decided to part ways was Musk was determined to stay focused on Confinity money transfer service. He was so committed that he terminated the company’s all other Internet banking operations in order to remain focused on the money transfer business.
All these shifts created an impact on Elon Musk’s position in the company he was replaced by Peter Thiel as CEO of X.com. In the following year, the X.com was renamed as PayPal.
The astounding growth of PayPal convinced executives to launch the IPO of PayPal in 2002. After the celebrated acquisition by eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) in July 2020 which valued PayPal $1.5 billion – 7% above the IPO price – it was clear that PayPal is en route to become a global leader in money transfer business.
After thirteen years of being under the umbrella of eBay, PayPal once again became an independent publicly traded company.
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