
20. Musk Got Pushed Out Of PayPal
Musk was a critical figure in the development of PayPal. We may not have gotten to where we are today with Internet money transfers without the work that he did with X.com and Confinity. But when he became CEO of PayPal, he got into an argument with one of the administrators.
As a result of the argument while he was on his honeymoon in 2000, he got fired from the company he helped create. It was also pretty much for the second time (the first time being when the board of directors at Zip2 refused to let him be the CEO).