![]() Keith Rabois, former executive at PayPal who later worked at LinkedIn, Slide, Square, Khosla Ventures, and currently with Peter Thiel at Founders Fund, and personally invested in Tokbox, Xoom, Slide, LinkedIn, Geni, Room 9 Entertainment, YouTube, and Yelp. ![]() Luke Nosek, PayPal co-founder and former vice president of marketing and strategy, became a partner at Founders Fund with Peter Thiel and Ken Howery. Founding partner of investment firms 8VC and Formation 8ĭave McClure, former PayPal marketing director, a super angel investor for start up companies and founder of 500 Startups which has hit 500+ investments.Īndrew McCormack, co-founder of Valar Ventures. Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir, Addepar, and OpenGov. Jared Kopf, former PayPal (executive assistant to Peter Thiel) who co-founded Slide, HomeRun and NextRoll. Jawed Karim, former PayPal engineer who co-founded YouTube. The first YouTube video, Me at the zoo, uploaded by Karim on April 23, 2005. Jackson, who wrote the book The PayPal Wars and became chief executive officer of WND Books and co-founded CapLinked. Ken Howery, former PayPal CFO who became a partner at Founders Fund.Ĭhad Hurley, former PayPal web designer who co-founded YouTube.Įric M. ![]() Reid Hoffman, former executive vice president who later founded LinkedIn and was an early investor in Facebook among other Silicon Valley rocketships. Steve Chen, former PayPal engineer who co-founded YouTube. Roelof Botha, former PayPal CFO who later became a partner of venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Sacks, former PayPal COO who later founded and Yammer. Musk later became a co-founder of Tesla Inc, he then founded SpaceX, Neuralink, OpenAI, The Boring Company, and is the Chairman of SolarCity.ĭavid O. Max Levchin, founder and chief technology officer at PayPal sometimes called the "consigliere" of the PayPal Mafia.Įlon Musk, founder of X.com which acquired the company Confinity. Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and former chief executive officer who is sometimes referred to as the "don" of the PayPal Mafia Individuals whom the media refers to as members of the PayPal Mafia include: ![]() I spend a lot of time studying and learning about all of these companies from the mafia, and here is a fun list for you to browse if you have never seen the interweb connectedness of this insanely talented group. These people have continued to invest in each other’s companies and work together to create world-changing companies over and over again. The group of individuals who started and worked at PayPal in the early internet days have gone on to found some of the most successful and interesting companies in the world today. One of the most mesmerizing and mind-blowing group of individuals to ever work together is the “PayPal Mafia”. The tiny little startups that execute well, work hard, focus on solving the right problems, and don’t listen to the noise SOMETIMES end up being very large and well known companies over time. The early days are the most interesting to me because at some point in time even the biggest, most well known companies were a tiny little startup. One of my favorite things in the world to do in my free time is to learn the history and very, very early beginnings of successful people and companies.
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