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PayPal Mafia, the Glossary

The "PayPal Mafia" is a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and/or developed additional technology companies based in Silicon Valley, such as Tesla, Inc., LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, Affirm, Slide, Kiva, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer.^[1]

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Affirm Holdings

Affirm Holdings, Inc. is an American financial technology company founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin in 2012.

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Aviary (image editor)

Aviary was a photo-editing platform for iOS, Android, Windows, and the web (web application).

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CapLinked

CapLinked is an online business transaction and project management application developed in the United States.

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Chad Hurley

Chad Meredith Hurley (born January 24, 1977) is an American webmaster and businessman who serves as the advisor and former chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube. PayPal Mafia and Chad Hurley are PayPal people.

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Chief technology officer

A chief technology officer (CTO) (also known as a chief technical officer or chief technologist) is an officer tasked with managing technical operations of an organization.

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Clarium Capital

Clarium Capital Management LLC was an American investment management and hedge fund company pursuing a global macro strategy.

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Confinity

Confinity Inc. was an American software company based in Silicon Valley, best known as the creator of PayPal.

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Conservatism in the United States

Conservatism in the United States is based on a belief in individualism, traditionalism, republicanism, and limited federal governmental power in relation to U.S. states.

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Crime boss

A crime boss, also known as a crime lord, mafia don, big boss, gang lord, gang boss, mob boss, kingpin, godfather, crime mentor, criminal mastermind, or boss lady is the leader of a criminal organization. PayPal Mafia and crime boss are mafia.

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Dave McClure

David "Dave" McClure is an entrepreneur and angel investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, who founded the business accelerator 500 Startups (now 500 Global) and served as its CEO until his resignation in 2017.

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David O. Sacks

David Oliver Sacks (born May 25, 1972) is a South African-American entrepreneur, author, and investor in internet technology firms. PayPal Mafia and David O. Sacks are PayPal people.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.

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EBay

eBay Inc. (often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide.

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Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in space company SpaceX and automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), and his role in the founding of The Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink and OpenAI. PayPal Mafia and Elon Musk are PayPal people.

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Eric M. Jackson

Eric M. Jackson is the co-founder of CapLinked, a project management and business transaction company.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Fairchild Semiconductor

Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.

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Founders Fund

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm formed in 2005 and has roughly $12 billion in total assets under management as of 2023.

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Geni.com

Geni is an American commercial genealogy and social networking website, founded in 2006, and owned by MyHeritage, an Israeli private company, since November 2012.

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Intel

Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.

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Jawed Karim

Jawed Karim (born October 28, 1979) is an American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. PayPal Mafia and Jawed Karim are PayPal people.

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Jeremy Stoppelman

Jeremy Stoppelman (born November 10, 1977) is an American business executive.

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Keith Rabois

Keith Rabois (born March 17, 1969) is an American technology executive and investor. PayPal Mafia and Keith Rabois are PayPal people.

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Ken Howery

Kenneth Alan Howery (born November 4, 1975) is an American entrepreneur and diplomat. PayPal Mafia and Ken Howery are PayPal people.

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Khosla Ventures

Khosla Ventures is an American venture capital firm founded by Vinod Khosla, focused on early-stage companies in the Internet, computing, mobile, financial services, agriculture, healthcare and clean technology sectors.

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Kiva (organization)

Kiva Microfunds is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Libertarianism in the United States

In the United States, libertarianism is a political philosophy promoting individual liberty.

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LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps.

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Luke Nosek

Łukasz Nosek (born June 1975) is a Polish-American entrepreneur, notable for being a co-founder of PayPal. PayPal Mafia and Luke Nosek are PayPal people.

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Max Levchin

Maksymilian Rafailovych "Max" Levchin (Максиміліан Рафаїлович Левчин; born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-American software engineer and businessman. PayPal Mafia and Max Levchin are PayPal people.

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Neuralink

Neuralink Corp. is an American neurotechnology company that has developed, as of 2024, implantable brain–computer interfaces (BCIs).

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Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good

Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good is a book written by Sarah Lacy and published in 2008.

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OpenAI

OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization founded in December 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies Inc. is a public American company that specializes in software platforms for big data analytics.

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PayPal

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.

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Peter Thiel

Peter Andreas Thiel (born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. PayPal Mafia and Peter Thiel are PayPal people.

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Premal Shah

Premal Shah is an Indian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Kiva, a global poverty alleviation non-profit that has raised over $1 billion for low-income entrepreneurs in eighty countries.

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Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network.

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Reid Hoffman

Reid Garrett Hoffman (born August 5, 1967) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist, podcaster, and author. PayPal Mafia and Reid Hoffman are PayPal people.

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Roelof Botha

Roelof Frederik Botha (born 19 September 1973) is a South African actuary, venture capitalist and company director. PayPal Mafia and Roelof Botha are PayPal people.

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Russel Simmons

Russel Simmons is an American businessman. PayPal Mafia and Russel Simmons are PayPal people.

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Sarah Lacy

Sarah Ruth Lacy (born December 29, 1975) is an American technology journalist and author.

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Scott Banister

Scott Banister (born 1975) is an American entrepreneur, startup founder, and angel investor. PayPal Mafia and Scott Banister are PayPal people.

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Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California which specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors.

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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory

Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, later known as Shockley Transistor Corporation, was a pioneering semiconductor developer founded by William Shockley, and funded by Beckman Instruments, Inc., in 1955. PayPal Mafia and Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory are History of Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation.

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SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, commonly referred to as SpaceX, is an American spacecraft manufacturer, launch service provider and satellite communications company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.

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Square (financial services)

Square is a financial services platform by Block, Inc. for small and medium-sized businesses.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Steve Chen

Steve Chen (born August 25, 1978) is a Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur who is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube. PayPal Mafia and Steve Chen are PayPal people.

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Super angel

Super angel (or "super-angel") was a term used in the early 2010s to describe venture capital investors who had once been angel investors and subsequently raised small venture capital funds.

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Technolibertarianism

Technolibertarianism, sometimes referred to as cyberlibertarianism, is a political philosophy with roots in the Internet's early hacker cypherpunk culture in Silicon Valley in the early 1990s and in American libertarianism.

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Tesla, Inc.

Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company.

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The Boring Company

The Boring Company (TBC) is an American infrastructure, tunnel construction services, and equipment company founded by Elon Musk.

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The PayPal Wars

The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth (2004) is a book by former PayPal marketing executive Eric M. Jackson.

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TokBox

TokBox was a PaaS (Platform as a Service) company that provided hosted infrastructure, APIs and tools required to deliver enterprise-grade WebRTC capabilities.

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Traitorous eight

The traitorous eight was a group of eight employees who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor. PayPal Mafia and traitorous eight are History of Silicon Valley.

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Twitter

X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States.

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Valar Ventures

Valar Ventures is a US-based venture capital fund founded by Andrew McCormack, James Fitzgerald and Peter Thiel in 2010.

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Venture capital

Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

Also known as Jack Selby.

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PayPal Mafia, the Glossary

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History of Silicon Valley

Mafia

PayPal people

References