PayPal mafia members Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Reid Hoffman went from working at the startup in the early 2000s to running ...

Founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel and Luke Nosek, the payment platform that would later become PayPal began as a Palm Pilot cryptography company called Confinity, which was ...

Or YouTube. Or SpaceX, LinkedIn, and Yelp. The payments company — launched as Confinity in 1998 by Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, and Luke Nosek — grew to become a Silicon Valley giant. It was ...