Helping people find local businesses

The PayPal mafia

Chapter 1

The birth of PayPal

Chapter 2

The secret sauce of PayPal

Chapter 3

Building the modern web

Chapter 4

Reaching for the stars

YOUR GOAL

Master of The PayPal mafia

Ch 3 · Building the modern web

steve Building the modern web

From PayPal's early days, a legend grew, This 'Mafia' built our tech world anew.

steve How LinkedIn connected the professional world

Helping people find local businesses

steve Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons founded Yelp after struggling to find a local doctor recommendation online.

How LinkedIn connected the professional world

steve Reid Hoffman used his PayPal experience to launch LinkedIn, the world's largest professional networking site.

Seed the Web

BETA

steve Connect the founders to their startups to discover how PayPal seeded the web.

Fun Fact

The first video: YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded the site's very first video, a nineteen-second clip of himself standing in front of elephants at the zoo.

Gossip

Which of these websites could you live without the longest?

Quiz

Which early PayPal employee became a famous venture capitalist and invested in Facebook's first outside round?

steve Helping people find local businesses

Quiz

What is the name of the big-data analysis company Peter Thiel co-founded in 2003?

steve Three guys who created YouTube

Quiz

Which tech giant acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for over 26 billion dollars?

steve The massive data engine of Palantir

Quiz

What local review platform was co-founded by PayPal alumni Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons?

Quiz

Who was the PayPal executive vice president who went on to co-found LinkedIn?

Quiz

How much did Google pay to acquire YouTube in 2006?

Quiz

Which video-sharing platform was founded by three former PayPal employees in 2005?

Quiz

The name of the company 'Palantir' is a reference to a magical object in which fantasy book series?