"...In 1998, Thiel co-founded the pioneering e-commerce payments company PayPal, which was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion.
... PayPal people including at least seven now valued at more than $1 billion:"
- Tesla TSLA -2.06% and SpaceX (co-founded by Elon Musk),
- LinkedIn LNKD -2.64% (Reid Hoffman),
- YouTube (Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim), [Google]
- Yelp YELP -3.49% (Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons),
- Yammer (David O. Sacks), [Microsoft]
- and the data-mining company Palantir (co-founded by Thiel himself in 2004).
Zero to One (book's web site)
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