The Remarkable Story of How PayPal Employees Took Over Silicon Valley

The Remarkable Story of How PayPal Employees Took Over Silicon Valley

How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and other PayPal mafia members came to run the tech world. Invest in iconic artworks with Masterworks using my custom link: https://mw-art.co/newsthink

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Elon Musk: The Royal Society, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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Sources:
0:04 LPS.1, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
0:12 “The PayPal Mafia” Fortune magazine article https://fortune.com/2007/11/13/paypal-mafia/
0:24 Elon Musk photo: Brian Solis / CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
0:45 Sourced from Associated Press images
0:55 eBay campus: ebayinc, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
1:53 Fortune magazine interview: https://fortune.com/2007/11/13/paypal-mafia/
2:17 Photo supplied by The Slanted Door http://slanteddoorgroup.com
2:32 Jeremy Stoppelman image: LeWeb, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Russell Simmons image: Joanne Wan https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeywan/324687443 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
2:55 Reid Hoffman image: startupofyou, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
2:58 New York Times interview: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/technology/17paypal.html
3:04 Keith Rabois image: Brian Solis, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
3:07 Quora comment https://www.quora.com/PayPal-product/What-strong-beliefs-on-culture-for-entrepreneurialism-did-Peter-Max-and-David-have-at-PayPal
3:52 Chad Hurley photo: World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Steve Chen photo: Rico Shen, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ via Wikimedia Commons
3:55 Sourced from Alamy (Newsthink Ltd. is a client)
4:33 Keith Rabois image: https://twitter.com/rabois
4:38 Roelof Botha image: TechCrunch. Photo by Dave Getzschman., CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:50 Reid Hoffman image: Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:55 Peter Thiel image: Dan Taylor, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:57 Mark Zuckerberg image: JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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