PayPal

PayPal (Bank)
Founder	• Peter Thiel • Max Levchin
Member of	Business Roundtable, Council on Foreign Relations/Corporate Members, Highlands Forum, WEF/Strategic Partners
Online payment website

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Elon Musk	“Despite having perhaps the greatest entrepreneurial streak of all the PayPal Mafia, Musk was purged from PayPal like some kind of toxin. Soon after the merger, Thiel resigned. Musk became CEO of the combined company and decided it was time for a technological overhaul. Specifically, he wanted to toss out Unix and put everything on a Microsoft (MSFT) platform. That may sound innocent enough to laypeople but not to Unix zealots like Levchin and his team. A holy war ensued. Musk lost. The board fired him and brought back Thiel while Musk was on a flight to Australia for his first vacation in years. “That’s the problem with vacations,” Musk deadpans. Musk still contends he didn’t deserve his fate, that his biggest flaw was being cut from different cloth. “Peter, Max, and I are not directly aligned philosophically,” he says. “Peter’s philosophy is pretty odd. It’s not normal. He’s a contrarian from an investing standpoint and thinks a lot about the singularity. I’m much less excited about that. I’m pro-human.””	Elon Musk Fortune	2007

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Roelof Botha	CFO	March 2000	January 2003

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Omidyar’s PayPal Corporation Said To Be Implicated in Withheld NSA Documents	article	11 December 2013	Sibel Edmonds
Document:PayPal Partnering With Anti-Defamation League to Share Info With Law Enforcement, Determine Who Can Use Their Services	Article	26 July 2021	Cassandra Fairbanks	The censorship industry colludes with law enforcement and financial services in order to censor more.

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