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:: Flash Brilliance: A Small Team of Students Will "Fly Above The Crowd" while possibly accepting donations from our now (soon to be) wealthy students.
Youth and life-long learners of all ages will Create the Future.
>>> Flash Brilliance
Who is able to read this? // Huge block of text is that really the right way?
In Flash of Brilliance, William Miller takes you on a creative journey—an adventure of discovery designed to unleash the creative spirit in yourself, your teams, and your organization. Blending research, case examples, and a highly original set of models and exercises, Miller brings your creative process alive so that it fosters personal fulfillment as it focuses creative inspiration.Flash of Brilliance offers specific techniques for recognizing your own Innovation Styles, overcoming obstacles to creativity, and stimulating people to make their most unique contributions to new products, quality processes, business strategies, and even organizational design. Miller convincingly demonstrates how your executives, team leaders, and key contributors can build a culture of ”strategic innovation management” where the best ideas rise to the top and you make proactive decisions even in unpredictable business environments.Innovation requires more than great minds, rapid learning, and new ideas. It requires your heart and soul, personal investment and courage. In this light, Miller takes you beyond the knowledge-based learning organization, beyond normal team building, and even beyond the ”creative edge” of long-standing innovative companies. Flash of Brilliance gives you practical ways to develop the profoundly more authentic and caring relationships that are essential for knowledge-creation, breakthrough creativity, and rapid implementation of great ideas.At its core, Flash of Brilliance is about achieving growth—both personal and professional—by providing everyone with the opportunity to integrate their deepest personal purposes, values, and spirit into a unified business effort. Miller even constructs the elusive bridge that links spirituality with creative business success. Ultimately, Flash of Brilliance is certain to inspire and energize you and your colleagues as you seek greater effectiveness in putting your personal values and creativity to work.
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Flash Brilliance + MASSIVE GLOBAL PAYMENTS!
Birds In Flight: You ARE Being Invited To Help Change The World. Please do not let "the crowd" drag you down.
Great Ideas do not need a Million Dollar presentation.
Flash Brilliance + MASSIVE GLOBAL PAYMENTS!
Our first "test event is" LIVE
Birds In Flight // Help The Hungry Segments of This Community to Rise Above The Crowd
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Hey (vWhale) Virtual Whales, This is *optional*, but you can earn huge credit in the future for succeeding.
Please help teach our "little birds" how to fly!
What is happening? We are "talking to them" instead of asking them to shout at everyone else.
We gave away some credits and now they need to earn it, if possible.
Details fairly obvious at the thread, thanks.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/birds-in-flight-earn-golden-ico-credits-2297945
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(vWhale) Virtual Whales Please drop into that thread at least once every three days, and in here as much as possible so you can learn options which secure your future (let me know if that is too much to ask ...lol?), and attempt to add value to the discussion.
Keep It Real:
Birds In Flight
"Everyone else" around Here = Fights to compete to have "sock puppets" screaming. We can teach them to Fly!
Short-term = An experiment with really nice pictures, which makes this forum a little better and attempts to offer the sock puppets (and students) a better life.
Long-term = Can you imagine the money our efforts can make by winning the "hearts and minds" of the "best and brightest birds" that want to learn to FLY with us?
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Learn from history, people.
MASSIVE GLOBAL PAYMENTS!!! == Only when the legal frameworks are better, there will be a HUGE race for a single company to dominate. Sadly, that is how the world works. We can build in some decentralization into the "monster", and YOU are qualified to help,someday starting right now today.
source = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11106473/The-PayPal-Mafia-Who-are-they-and-where-are-Silicon-Valleys-richest-group-of-men-now.html
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Have you ever reached way beyond your current abilities?
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Youth and life-long learners of all ages will Create the Future.
>>> Flash Brilliance
Who is able to read this? // Huge block of text is that really the right way?
In Flash of Brilliance, William Miller takes you on a creative journey—an adventure of discovery designed to unleash the creative spirit in yourself, your teams, and your organization. Blending research, case examples, and a highly original set of models and exercises, Miller brings your creative process alive so that it fosters personal fulfillment as it focuses creative inspiration.Flash of Brilliance offers specific techniques for recognizing your own Innovation Styles, overcoming obstacles to creativity, and stimulating people to make their most unique contributions to new products, quality processes, business strategies, and even organizational design. Miller convincingly demonstrates how your executives, team leaders, and key contributors can build a culture of ”strategic innovation management” where the best ideas rise to the top and you make proactive decisions even in unpredictable business environments.Innovation requires more than great minds, rapid learning, and new ideas. It requires your heart and soul, personal investment and courage. In this light, Miller takes you beyond the knowledge-based learning organization, beyond normal team building, and even beyond the ”creative edge” of long-standing innovative companies. Flash of Brilliance gives you practical ways to develop the profoundly more authentic and caring relationships that are essential for knowledge-creation, breakthrough creativity, and rapid implementation of great ideas.At its core, Flash of Brilliance is about achieving growth—both personal and professional—by providing everyone with the opportunity to integrate their deepest personal purposes, values, and spirit into a unified business effort. Miller even constructs the elusive bridge that links spirituality with creative business success. Ultimately, Flash of Brilliance is certain to inspire and energize you and your colleagues as you seek greater effectiveness in putting your personal values and creativity to work.
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Flash Brilliance + MASSIVE GLOBAL PAYMENTS!
Birds In Flight: You ARE Being Invited To Help Change The World. Please do not let "the crowd" drag you down.
Great Ideas do not need a Million Dollar presentation.
Flash Brilliance + MASSIVE GLOBAL PAYMENTS!
Our first "test event is" LIVE
Birds In Flight // Help The Hungry Segments of This Community to Rise Above The Crowd
```
Hey (vWhale) Virtual Whales, This is *optional*, but you can earn huge credit in the future for succeeding.
Please help teach our "little birds" how to fly!
What is happening? We are "talking to them" instead of asking them to shout at everyone else.
We gave away some credits and now they need to earn it, if possible.
Details fairly obvious at the thread, thanks.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/birds-in-flight-earn-golden-ico-credits-2297945
~~~~~~~~~
(vWhale) Virtual Whales Please drop into that thread at least once every three days, and in here as much as possible so you can learn options which secure your future (let me know if that is too much to ask ...lol?), and attempt to add value to the discussion.
Keep It Real:
Birds In Flight
"Everyone else" around Here = Fights to compete to have "sock puppets" screaming. We can teach them to Fly!
Short-term = An experiment with really nice pictures, which makes this forum a little better and attempts to offer the sock puppets (and students) a better life.
Long-term = Can you imagine the money our efforts can make by winning the "hearts and minds" of the "best and brightest birds" that want to learn to FLY with us?
~~~~~~~~~
Learn from history, people.
MASSIVE GLOBAL PAYMENTS!!! == Only when the legal frameworks are better, there will be a HUGE race for a single company to dominate. Sadly, that is how the world works. We can build in some decentralization into the "monster", and YOU are qualified to help,
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The PayPal Mafia: Who are they and where are Silicon Valley's richest group of men now?
The company founded by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Max Levchin has spawned three billionaires, many, many millionaires and generation-defining companies. Here, we break down the key players from the most notorious group in Silicon Valley.
By Charlie Parrish
8:00AM BST 20 Sep 2014
The picture above features some of the most poorly dressed men of the 2000s. Behold the outsized sportswear, the leather blazers, the silky shirts. But these men can afford to both laugh off our criticism and buy several new wardrobes. For they are the ‘PayPal Mafia’ and between them, these 13 men are worth billions and billions of dollars. And to be fair to them, they were styled as faux gangsters for the 2007 Fortune magazine shoot that birthed their infamous moniker. Mick Brown recently met PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel for an extraordinary Telegraph Magazine feature. The vast success enjoyed by Thiel and his former colleagues got us thinking: how did one company breed such a remarkable crop of entrepreneurs and capitalists? Click on the famous Fortune photograph below and discover exactly who the PayPal Mafia are.
1. Jawed Karim
ADVERTISING
Role in PayPal: Designed and implemented PayPal’s incendiary real-time anti-fraud system, among other key components of the business.
After PayPal: Karim, Chad Hurley (designer of PayPal’s first logo) and Steve Chen (another PayPal colleague and early Facebook employee) founded a video sharing site in 2005. They named it YouTube. Soon after developing the fledgling site, Karim enrolled at Stanford University where, despite having already displayed a certain acumen in this area, he chose to study computer science. He continued to act as an advisor to YouTube before cashing in 137,443 shares of stock (worth a cool $64 million) when Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion in November 2006. Now 35, Karim launched a business called Youniversity Ventures in 2008 aimed at helping students and graduates develop business ideas with early PayPal investors Kevin Hartz and Keith Rabols.
Estimated net worth: $140 Million
2. Jeremy Stoppelman (below)
Role in PayPal: Joined PayPal as an engineer whilst it was known as X.com, eventually becoming the Vice President of Engineering.
Post-PayPal: Resigned soon after PayPal was picked up by eBay for $1.5 billion in 2003, taking a year to attend Harvard Business School. Inspired whilst poorly with flu and finding it tricky to find decent doctor recommendations, he and a former colleague Russel Simmons dreamed up the idea for online reviews site Yelp in 2004 and convinced former PayPal Chief Technology Officer Max Levchin to put up $1 million in initial funding. Steve Jobs convinced him to reject Google’s acquisition offer in 2010 and in 2012, Yelp became a public limited company. But it’s not been a smooth recent few years: Yelp reviewers leaving negative reviews have faced legal action from affronted businesses and the site’s faced accusations of handing positive reviews to advertisers.
Estimated net worth: $111-$222 million
3. Andrew McCormack
Role in PayPal: Joined in 2001, working closely as an assistant to Peter Thiel as the company prepared for its initial public offering (IPO)
After PayPal: Helped set-up another Thiel venture, hedge fund company Clarium Capital before founding a restaurant group in San Francisco. Currently a partner at venture capital firm Valar Ventures, he found his way back to Thiel in 2008 to join Thiel Capital via corporate development roles at eCount (now part of US banking conglomerate Citigroup) and Yahoo!.
Estimated net worth: Unknown
4. Premal Shah
Role in PayPal: Spent six years at the company as a product manager.
After PayPal: Became President of non-profit organisation Kiva, which allows people to lend money to struggling entrepreneurs and students in over 70 countries via the internet. Founded by former programmer Matt Flannery and his businesswoman ex-wife Jessica Jackeley, the site was raising around $1 million every three days by November 2013.
Estimated net worth: Unknown
5. Luke Nosek
Role in PayPal: One of the co-founders, alongside Thiel, Elon Musk and Ken Howery and his friend from the University of Illinois, Max Levchin and Vice President of Marketing and Strategy.
After PayPal: Departed after the eBay takeover and travelled the world, before founding San Francisco venture capital firm Founders Firm (slogan: ‘We wanted flying cars, we got 140 characters’) with Thiel and Howery in 2005. Has spoken extensively about the benefits of brain training through meditation.
Estimated net worth: Unknown
6. Ken Howery
Role in PayPal: A co-founder and Chief Financial Officer between 1998-2002.
After PayPal: Hung around as eBay’s Director of Corporate Development for just under a year after the takeover, before rejoining Thiel as vice president of private equity at Clarium Capital in 2004. Started Founders Fund less than 12 months later with Thiel and Nosek. In 2012, he co-founded Popexpert, an online learning platform that allows users to connect face-to-face with experts across a broad range of fields. Howery’s available for consulting sessions if you have a spare few $100,000.
Estimated net worth: Unknown
PHOTO: Getty
7. David Sacks (above)
Role in PayPal: Joining from management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company, Sacks became PayPal’s chief operating officer.
After PayPal: Sacks boasts one of the Mafia’s more diverse post-PayPal CVs. After eBay assumed control, he left for Hollywood and produced and financed the Golden Globe nominated 2005 movie Thank You for Smoking. The next year, he founded genealogy website Geni.com. Frustrations with inter-office communication led him to develop a productivity tool to help employees share information. This was to become the social network Yammer. Mircosoft acquired the company for $1.2 billion in July 2012. Sacks was named corporate vice president in Microsoft’s Office Division. He hit the headlines in 2012 after throwing himself history’s most gauche 40th birthday party. The theme? ‘Let them eat cake’ French revolution. The entertainment? Snoop Dogg. The cost? A reported $1.4 million.
Estimated net worth: Unknown
8. Peter Thiel
Role in Paypal: Co-founder and CEO.
After PayPal: After earning $55 million from his 3.7 per cent stake in the eBay deal, Thiel immediately founded hedge fund Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund and made the ludicrously savvy decision to angel invest $500,000 in fledgling social network Facebook. Thiel was the first outside investor in the company and sold almost has made over $1 billion selling his shares. You can read Mick Brown’s in-depth profile on Thiel right here.
Estimated net worth: $2.2 billion
The Thiel Fellowship: meet the college dropouts ready to change the world
9. Keith Rabois
Role in PayPal: Held the nicely extravagant title of Executive Vice President, Business Development, Public Affairs and Policy between November 2000 and November 2002.
After PayPal: Regarded as a very useful person to have around at a start-up, Rabois went onto hold senior positions at LinkedIn (more on that in a minute), Max Levchin’s Slide (a company responsible for slideshows and animations in social networks) and electronic payment firm Square (founded by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey). Controversy accompanied his exit from Square, with a threat of a lawsuit over sexual harassment claims by a male employee who allegedly obtained a job at the company after beginning a relationship with Rabois. Which makes Gawker’s accusations of Rabois’ undergraduate homophobia all the more disturbing. Rabois is now a partner at venture capital outfit Khosla Ventures and serves on the board of directors at Yelp and Xoom.
Estimated net worth: $1 Billion
10. Reid Hoffman
Role in PayPal: Joined from the world’s first (failed) social network SocialNet to become a member of the board of directors, then went full-time to become PayPal’s COO. By the time of the 2002 eBay takeover, he was executive vice president.
After PayPal: ‘The most connected man in Silicon Valley’ co-founded inbox bothering business social network LinkedIn in December 2002, owning a stake now worth an estimated $2.39 billion with its IPO in May 2011. The eldest of the Mafia is also lauded for his clever/lucky angel investing. He’s made upwards of 80 angel investments (including Facebook, Zynga, Flickr, Digg and Last.fm) and in 2010 joined Greylock Partners, running their $20 million Discovery Fund; designed to seed fundings of worthy start-ups.
Estimated net worth: $3.9 billion (Outdated / afaik, He sold out to Microsoft for over $25B // edit later )
11. Max Levchin
Role in PayPal: A co-founder and the firm’s chief technology officer, well regarded for his contributions to PayPal’s anti-fraud efforts.
After PayPal: Took his $34 million from the PayPal sale and founded Slide. Google picked it up for $182 million in August 2010, with Levchin becoming Google’s Vice President of Engineering on 25 August. A year and a day later, Google closed Slide and Levchin departed. Between Slide’s rise and fall, he helped start Yelp in 2004 (and is the company’s largest shareholder), was appointed to the board of directors of Evernote and and co-founded financial services company Affirm. In recent years, he’s started a company called HVF (standing for, enjoyably, ‘Hard, Valuable, and Fun’), a firm designed to fund projects looking to leverage data and joined Yahoo!’s Board of Directors. He’s keeping himself busy.
Estimated net worth: $300 million
12. Roelof Botha
Role in PayPal: A qualified actuary, South African Botha negotiated PayPal’s sale as its Chief Financial Officer. He had joined the company prior to his graduation from the Stanford School of Business, becoming director of corporate development.
After PayPal: A regular on the Forbes Midas List of top tech investors, Both joined venture capital giant Sequoia Capital in January 2003 as a partner, where’s he’s stayed ever since. His extra curricular business pursuits include sitting on the boards of 13 companies, including Jawbone, Evernote, Tumblr and Xoom. He was also on YouTube’s board before the company was acquired by Google.
Estimated net worth: Unknown.
13 Russel Simmons
Role at PayPal: The firm’s Lead Software Architect.
After PayPal: Co-founded Yelp with Jeremy Stoppelman and served as its CTO until he ‘transitioned’ into an advisory role in June 2010 to take some ‘much needed time off to travel’. Fresh from his high end gap year, Simmons launched Learnirvana in 2012, a web tutor program that helps users learn languages.
Estimated net worth: Very difficult to discover. It’s very easy to tell you that near-namesake and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons is worth around $340 million, however.
PHOTO: Art Streiber/August Image
Not in the picture, but absolutely worth profiling:
Elon Musk (above)
Role at PayPal: PayPal had merged with Musk’s financial services and email payment firm X.com in 1999 and Musk became the new company’s largest shareholder by the time of its sale to eBay. He earned $165 million from the deal.
After PayPal: Strap yourselves in. Musk launched Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in June 2002, where he serves as the CEO and CTO. In May 2012, their Dragon spacecraft ensured SpaceX became the first commercial vehicle to launch and dock a vehicle to the International Space Station. He assumed leadership of electric car firm Tesla Motors in 2008 and in 2013 unveiled a proposal for a new form of transportation between the Greater Los Angeles area and the Bay Area in San Francisco. His ‘Hyperloop’ is a subsonic air travel machine completely reliant on solar energy.
Estimated net worth: $9.7 billion
The company founded by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Max Levchin has spawned three billionaires, many, many millionaires and generation-defining companies. Here, we break down the key players from the most notorious group in Silicon Valley.
By Charlie Parrish
8:00AM BST 20 Sep 2014
The picture above features some of the most poorly dressed men of the 2000s. Behold the outsized sportswear, the leather blazers, the silky shirts. But these men can afford to both laugh off our criticism and buy several new wardrobes. For they are the ‘PayPal Mafia’ and between them, these 13 men are worth billions and billions of dollars. And to be fair to them, they were styled as faux gangsters for the 2007 Fortune magazine shoot that birthed their infamous moniker. Mick Brown recently met PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel for an extraordinary Telegraph Magazine feature. The vast success enjoyed by Thiel and his former colleagues got us thinking: how did one company breed such a remarkable crop of entrepreneurs and capitalists? Click on the famous Fortune photograph below and discover exactly who the PayPal Mafia are.
1. Jawed Karim
ADVERTISING
Role in PayPal: Designed and implemented PayPal’s incendiary real-time anti-fraud system, among other key components of the business.
After PayPal: Karim, Chad Hurley (designer of PayPal’s first logo) and Steve Chen (another PayPal colleague and early Facebook employee) founded a video sharing site in 2005. They named it YouTube. Soon after developing the fledgling site, Karim enrolled at Stanford University where, despite having already displayed a certain acumen in this area, he chose to study computer science. He continued to act as an advisor to YouTube before cashing in 137,443 shares of stock (worth a cool $64 million) when Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 billion in November 2006. Now 35, Karim launched a business called Youniversity Ventures in 2008 aimed at helping students and graduates develop business ideas with early PayPal investors Kevin Hartz and Keith Rabols.
Estimated net worth: $140 Million
2. Jeremy Stoppelman (below)
Role in PayPal: Joined PayPal as an engineer whilst it was known as X.com, eventually becoming the Vice President of Engineering.
Post-PayPal: Resigned soon after PayPal was picked up by eBay for $1.5 billion in 2003, taking a year to attend Harvard Business School. Inspired whilst poorly with flu and finding it tricky to find decent doctor recommendations, he and a former colleague Russel Simmons dreamed up the idea for online reviews site Yelp in 2004 and convinced former PayPal Chief Technology Officer Max Levchin to put up $1 million in initial funding. Steve Jobs convinced him to reject Google’s acquisition offer in 2010 and in 2012, Yelp became a public limited company. But it’s not been a smooth recent few years: Yelp reviewers leaving negative reviews have faced legal action from affronted businesses and the site’s faced accusations of handing positive reviews to advertisers.
Estimated net worth: $111-$222 million
3. Andrew McCormack
Role in PayPal: Joined in 2001, working closely as an assistant to Peter Thiel as the company prepared for its initial public offering (IPO)
After PayPal: Helped set-up another Thiel venture, hedge fund company Clarium Capital before founding a restaurant group in San Francisco. Currently a partner at venture capital firm Valar Ventures, he found his way back to Thiel in 2008 to join Thiel Capital via corporate development roles at eCount (now part of US banking conglomerate Citigroup) and Yahoo!.
Estimated net worth: Unknown
4. Premal Shah
Role in PayPal: Spent six years at the company as a product manager.
After PayPal: Became President of non-profit organisation Kiva, which allows people to lend money to struggling entrepreneurs and students in over 70 countries via the internet. Founded by former programmer Matt Flannery and his businesswoman ex-wife Jessica Jackeley, the site was raising around $1 million every three days by November 2013.
Estimated net worth: Unknown
5. Luke Nosek
Role in PayPal: One of the co-founders, alongside Thiel, Elon Musk and Ken Howery and his friend from the University of Illinois, Max Levchin and Vice President of Marketing and Strategy.
After PayPal: Departed after the eBay takeover and travelled the world, before founding San Francisco venture capital firm Founders Firm (slogan: ‘We wanted flying cars, we got 140 characters’) with Thiel and Howery in 2005. Has spoken extensively about the benefits of brain training through meditation.
Estimated net worth: Unknown
6. Ken Howery
Role in PayPal: A co-founder and Chief Financial Officer between 1998-2002.
After PayPal: Hung around as eBay’s Director of Corporate Development for just under a year after the takeover, before rejoining Thiel as vice president of private equity at Clarium Capital in 2004. Started Founders Fund less than 12 months later with Thiel and Nosek. In 2012, he co-founded Popexpert, an online learning platform that allows users to connect face-to-face with experts across a broad range of fields. Howery’s available for consulting sessions if you have a spare few $100,000.
Estimated net worth: Unknown
PHOTO: Getty
7. David Sacks (above)
Role in PayPal: Joining from management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company, Sacks became PayPal’s chief operating officer.
After PayPal: Sacks boasts one of the Mafia’s more diverse post-PayPal CVs. After eBay assumed control, he left for Hollywood and produced and financed the Golden Globe nominated 2005 movie Thank You for Smoking. The next year, he founded genealogy website Geni.com. Frustrations with inter-office communication led him to develop a productivity tool to help employees share information. This was to become the social network Yammer. Mircosoft acquired the company for $1.2 billion in July 2012. Sacks was named corporate vice president in Microsoft’s Office Division. He hit the headlines in 2012 after throwing himself history’s most gauche 40th birthday party. The theme? ‘Let them eat cake’ French revolution. The entertainment? Snoop Dogg. The cost? A reported $1.4 million.
Estimated net worth: Unknown
8. Peter Thiel
Role in Paypal: Co-founder and CEO.
After PayPal: After earning $55 million from his 3.7 per cent stake in the eBay deal, Thiel immediately founded hedge fund Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund and made the ludicrously savvy decision to angel invest $500,000 in fledgling social network Facebook. Thiel was the first outside investor in the company and sold almost has made over $1 billion selling his shares. You can read Mick Brown’s in-depth profile on Thiel right here.
Estimated net worth: $2.2 billion
The Thiel Fellowship: meet the college dropouts ready to change the world
9. Keith Rabois
Role in PayPal: Held the nicely extravagant title of Executive Vice President, Business Development, Public Affairs and Policy between November 2000 and November 2002.
After PayPal: Regarded as a very useful person to have around at a start-up, Rabois went onto hold senior positions at LinkedIn (more on that in a minute), Max Levchin’s Slide (a company responsible for slideshows and animations in social networks) and electronic payment firm Square (founded by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey). Controversy accompanied his exit from Square, with a threat of a lawsuit over sexual harassment claims by a male employee who allegedly obtained a job at the company after beginning a relationship with Rabois. Which makes Gawker’s accusations of Rabois’ undergraduate homophobia all the more disturbing. Rabois is now a partner at venture capital outfit Khosla Ventures and serves on the board of directors at Yelp and Xoom.
Estimated net worth: $1 Billion
10. Reid Hoffman
Role in PayPal: Joined from the world’s first (failed) social network SocialNet to become a member of the board of directors, then went full-time to become PayPal’s COO. By the time of the 2002 eBay takeover, he was executive vice president.
After PayPal: ‘The most connected man in Silicon Valley’ co-founded inbox bothering business social network LinkedIn in December 2002, owning a stake now worth an estimated $2.39 billion with its IPO in May 2011. The eldest of the Mafia is also lauded for his clever/lucky angel investing. He’s made upwards of 80 angel investments (including Facebook, Zynga, Flickr, Digg and Last.fm) and in 2010 joined Greylock Partners, running their $20 million Discovery Fund; designed to seed fundings of worthy start-ups.
Estimated net worth: $3.9 billion (Outdated / afaik, He sold out to Microsoft for over $25B // edit later )
11. Max Levchin
Role in PayPal: A co-founder and the firm’s chief technology officer, well regarded for his contributions to PayPal’s anti-fraud efforts.
After PayPal: Took his $34 million from the PayPal sale and founded Slide. Google picked it up for $182 million in August 2010, with Levchin becoming Google’s Vice President of Engineering on 25 August. A year and a day later, Google closed Slide and Levchin departed. Between Slide’s rise and fall, he helped start Yelp in 2004 (and is the company’s largest shareholder), was appointed to the board of directors of Evernote and and co-founded financial services company Affirm. In recent years, he’s started a company called HVF (standing for, enjoyably, ‘Hard, Valuable, and Fun’), a firm designed to fund projects looking to leverage data and joined Yahoo!’s Board of Directors. He’s keeping himself busy.
Estimated net worth: $300 million
12. Roelof Botha
Role in PayPal: A qualified actuary, South African Botha negotiated PayPal’s sale as its Chief Financial Officer. He had joined the company prior to his graduation from the Stanford School of Business, becoming director of corporate development.
After PayPal: A regular on the Forbes Midas List of top tech investors, Both joined venture capital giant Sequoia Capital in January 2003 as a partner, where’s he’s stayed ever since. His extra curricular business pursuits include sitting on the boards of 13 companies, including Jawbone, Evernote, Tumblr and Xoom. He was also on YouTube’s board before the company was acquired by Google.
Estimated net worth: Unknown.
13 Russel Simmons
Role at PayPal: The firm’s Lead Software Architect.
After PayPal: Co-founded Yelp with Jeremy Stoppelman and served as its CTO until he ‘transitioned’ into an advisory role in June 2010 to take some ‘much needed time off to travel’. Fresh from his high end gap year, Simmons launched Learnirvana in 2012, a web tutor program that helps users learn languages.
Estimated net worth: Very difficult to discover. It’s very easy to tell you that near-namesake and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons is worth around $340 million, however.
PHOTO: Art Streiber/August Image
Not in the picture, but absolutely worth profiling:
Elon Musk (above)
Role at PayPal: PayPal had merged with Musk’s financial services and email payment firm X.com in 1999 and Musk became the new company’s largest shareholder by the time of its sale to eBay. He earned $165 million from the deal.
After PayPal: Strap yourselves in. Musk launched Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in June 2002, where he serves as the CEO and CTO. In May 2012, their Dragon spacecraft ensured SpaceX became the first commercial vehicle to launch and dock a vehicle to the International Space Station. He assumed leadership of electric car firm Tesla Motors in 2008 and in 2013 unveiled a proposal for a new form of transportation between the Greater Los Angeles area and the Bay Area in San Francisco. His ‘Hyperloop’ is a subsonic air travel machine completely reliant on solar energy.
Estimated net worth: $9.7 billion
source = http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11106473/The-PayPal-Mafia-Who-are-they-and-where-are-Silicon-Valleys-richest-group-of-men-now.html
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Discussion For Future Rewards
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How come most people never become successful?
Have you ever reached way beyond your current abilities?
Ecosystem
Look for us and you will be amazed.
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To translate
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Flash Brilliance + MASSIVE GLOBAL PAYMENTS!
Flash Brilliance! Can You Fly At Least Once A Month?
discount code " big_one_coming "
__Url this thread__
MASSIVE Bounties: Birds In Flight >>> Earn Golden ICO Credits | "This is Very Interesting To Me"
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