What is common between YouTube, LinkedIN, Tesla and SpaceX?
The answer is PayPal!
Why, you ask?
Because these companies were among the many founded by people who founded or worked at Paypal in the early days.
This group of early PayPal employees were so successful and influential in the tech-world that they are also referred to as the "PayPal Mafia"
Because these companies were among the many founded by people who founded or worked at Paypal in the early days.
This group of early PayPal employees were so successful and influential in the tech-world that they are also referred to as the "PayPal Mafia"
Some of the big names are as follows
Elon Musk, is founder of X.com which acquired the company Confinity. Musk later became a co-founder of Tesla Inc, he then founded SpaceX, Neuralink, OpenAI, The Boring Company, and is the Chairman of SolarCity
(the domain X.com is still active and hosts a single page with a single letter X on it.Sentimental reasons , it seems!)
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim former PayPal engineers who co-founded YouTube
(the domain X.com is still active and hosts a single page with a single letter X on it.Sentimental reasons , it seems!)
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim former PayPal engineers who co-founded YouTube
Reid Hoffman, former executive vice president who later founded LinkedIn
Russel Simmons, former PayPal engineer who co-founded Yelp Inc
Russel Simmons, former PayPal engineer who co-founded Yelp Inc
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