The PayPal mafia

Chapter 1

The birth of PayPal

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Chapter 2

The secret sauce of PayPal

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Chapter 3

Building the modern web

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Chapter 4

Reaching for the stars

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YOUR GOAL

Master of The PayPal mafia

Ch 3 · Building the modern web

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

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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.

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Quiz

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

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Gossip

Which of these websites could you live without the longest?

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Quiz

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

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Quiz

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

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Quiz

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

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Quiz

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

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Quiz

How much did Google pay to acquire YouTube in 2006?

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Quiz

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

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Quiz

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

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