Jun. 8—First Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks upended America's financial-services industry with an innovative Silicon Valley startup called PayPal that rocketed to dominance as the ...

Katrina Schwartz: This week on Bay Curious we’re trying to understand what the PayPal Mafia is and why they matter. This one goes deep into the tech world, so to answer it, we brought in someone who ...

And then because PayPal sold at the end of 2002, a lot of those lessons were really valuable. Blogging didn't really start until 2005, so the stuff we learned wasn't widely disseminated.

Many of the PayPal Mafia’s 20 or so members have continued to work together, with Musk, Thiel and Sacks collaborating especially closely.

In its early days, online payment platform PayPal defied the big banks, navigated steep regulatory obstacles, and, after it was sold to San Jose e-commerce titan eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002, ...

Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, holds hundred dollar bills as he speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at Miami Beach Convention Center on April 7 ...