Could Elon Musk's rise to power be influenced by his connections to the controversial 'PayPal Mafia' and apartheid South ...

These men are known as the “PayPal mafia” due to their involvement in the founding of the financial tech company PayPal, explains reporter Chris McGreal. McGreal, a former South Africa ...

All of this was pointed out in a historic Fortune story in 2007 that coined “PayPal Mafia” for the first time. The book Sacks and Selby bought the rights to is The Founders: The Story of ...

Fortune’s 2007 story coined “PayPal Mafia” and included this picture of the alums who went on to start new ventures and VC firms in Silicon Valley. © 2024 ...

Sacks is a member of a group known as the "PayPal Mafia" — a group of PayPal employees who went on to become big names in the world of tech and venture capital. Besides Sacks, the group counts ...

Thiel is also part of the famous Paypal Mafia. The term Paypal Mafia was coined in a 2007 Fortune cover story, which examined the outsize influence within the tech scene of a group of men who had ...