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After cashing out, members of the PayPal Mafia founded or invested in companies such as LinkedIn, SpaceX, Tesla, Palantir and YouTube, and became Facebook's first outside investors.
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From a Birthday Party to a Trillion-Dollar AI Empire: The Rise of a New PayPal Mafia
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