Why ex-PayPal Employees Run the Tech World

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0:04 LPS.1, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
0:12 “The PayPal Mafia” Fortune magazine article https://fortune.com/2007/11/13/paypal-mafia/
0:24 Elon Musk photo: Brian Solis / CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
0:45 Sourced from Associated Press images
0:55 eBay campus: ebayinc, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
1:53 Fortune magazine interview: https://fortune.com/2007/11/13/paypal-mafia/
2:17 Photo supplied by The Slanted Door http://slanteddoorgroup.com
2:32 Jeremy Stoppelman image: LeWeb, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Russell Simmons image: Joanne Wan https://www.flickr.com/photos/joeywan/324687443 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
2:55 Reid Hoffman image: startupofyou, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
2:58 New York Times interview: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/technology/17paypal.html
3:04 Keith Rabois image: Brian Solis, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
3:07 Quora comment https://www.quora.com/PayPal-product/What-strong-beliefs-on-culture-for-entrepreneurialism-did-Peter-Max-and-David-have-at-PayPal
3:52 Chad Hurley photo: World Economic Forum, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Steve Chen photo: Rico Shen, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ via Wikimedia Commons
3:55 Sourced from Alamy (Newsthink Ltd. is a client)
4:33 Keith Rabois image: https://twitter.com/rabois
4:38 Roelof Botha image: TechCrunch. Photo by Dave Getzschman., CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:50 Reid Hoffman image: Joi Ito, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:55 Peter Thiel image: Dan Taylor, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:57 Mark Zuckerberg image: JD Lasica from Pleasanton, CA, US, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons