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PayPal Mafia : The Elite group dominating Silicon Valley

PayPal Mafia : The Elite group dominating Silicon Valley
  1. Elon Musk : Chairman then CEO at PayPal. Went on to found SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. Current Networth: $219 Billion
  2. Peter Thiel : Vice President Finace then CEO at PayPal. Went onto found Founders Fund, Palantir. Current Networth: $4.2 Billion
  3. Reid Hoffman: Vice President and COO at PayPal . Went onto found LinkedIn. Current Networth: $2.4 Billion
  4. President Marketing & Strategy at PayPal. Co-Founded Founders Fund with Peter Thiel. Current networth is $1.2 Billion
  5. Ken Howrey: Chief Financial Officer. Co-Founded Founders Fund. Served as the U.S Ambassador to Sweden from 2019-2021. Networth of $1.5 Billion
  6. Jeremy Stoppelman: Vice President of Engineering at PayPal. Co-Founded Yelp. Networth figures vary
  7. Jawed Karim: Software Architect at PayPal. Went onto Co-Found YouTube. Current Networth: $300 Million
  8. Chad Hurley : The first user-interface designer at PayPal. Co-Founded YouTube and served as its first CEO. Current Networth: $800 Million
  9. Steve Chen : Software Engineer at PayPal. Co-Founded YouTube and was its first Chief Technology Officer. Current Networth: $500 Million
  10. Max Levchin : Chief Technology Officer at PayPal. Went on to Co-Found Yelp and was the Chairman of Yelp from 2014-2015. Current Networth: $1.2 Billion.
  11. Roelof Botha: Director of Corporate Development at PayPal. Currently, Botha serves as a partner in Sequoia Capital and sits on the board of several companies including MongoDB, Jawbone, Eventbrite, Evernote, Bird, Ethos, Mahalo, Natera, Nimbula, Square, Tokbox, Tumblr, Unity, Whisper, Weebly and Xoom. Networth figures vary
  12. David Sacks : COO at PayPal. He went on to found Genie.com. He co-founded Craft Ventures in 2017 and currently serves as a General Partner in that company. He was also an early investor in Airbnb, Postmates, and Slack. Current Networth: $200 Million
  13. Andrew McCormack: Worked as an assistant to Peter Thiel at PayPal. After PayPal helped set up Clarium Capital with Thiel. Currently is a partner at the Venture Capital firm Valar Ventures. Networth figures vary.
  14. Keith Rabois: Served as PayPal’s Executive Vice President. After PayPal joined LinkedIn as its Vice President. He was also an early start-up investor at Square where he served as COO. Networth figures vary.
  15. Russel Simmons: Was an Engineer at PayPal. Went onto Co-Found Yelp. Networth figures vary.
  16. Jack Selby: Served as the Vice President of Corporate and International Development at PayPal. Became a partner at Clarium Capital Management joining Peter Thiel. Networth figures vary.
  17. Dave McClure: Director of Marketing. After PayPal he joined Founders Fund for a brief while before launching 500 StartUps which was an early stage venture fund. Networth figures vary

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