10 successful companies sprung from the PayPal Mafia

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Tesla Motors

PayPal employees are known for producing hugely successful companies. Here are some of the biggest companies to come from members of the PayPal Mafia.
Tesla Motors is an electric car manufacturer that was founded by former X.com CEO and PayPal co-founder, Elon Musk.
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LinkedIn

Above is the LinkedIn headquarters in Mountain View, California. LinkedIn was founded by Reid Hoffman.
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Palantir Technologies

Palantir Technologies is a computer software company, primarily providing data analysis services, founded by Peter Thiel. While still a private company, its estimated worth is in the billions of dollars.
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SpaceX

SpaceX is a private, space-exploration company also founded by Elon Musk. It has designed and built vehicles such as the Falcon 9 seen in the above picture.
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Yelp

Yelp is an online review site for restaurants, cafes, and other local businesses and sites. It was founded by Jeremy Stoppelman (right) and Russel Simmons (not pictured.) Both of the founders are former PayPal employees.
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YouTube

YouTube is a social video sharing site that is often credited as the driving force for online video content. YouTube was founded by Steve Chen (center) and Chad Hurley (right), and sold to Google for $1.65 billion in 2006.
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Yammer

Yammer is a social enterprise software company that was founded by former PayPal executive David Sacks in 2008. The company was acquired by Microsoft for more than $1 billion in 2013.
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Slide

Slide was a photo sharing tool for social media sites such as Myspace, and was acquired by Google in 2010. The company's founder and CEO, Max Levchin, was an original founder of Confinity, which would later become PayPal.
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CapLinked

CapLinked is a SaaS platform for online business collaboration and workflow optimization. CapLinked was founded by Eric Jackson, a former employee at PayPal and author of The PayPal Wars.
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Geni

Geni is a social networking site based around genealogy discoveries. The company was also founded by David Sacks and was acquired by MyHeritage in 2012.
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Tesla Motors

PayPal employees are known for producing hugely successful companies. Here are some of the biggest companies to come from members of the PayPal Mafia.

Tesla Motors is an electric car manufacturer that was founded by former X.com CEO and PayPal co-founder, Elon Musk.

SEE: How the 'PayPal Mafia' redefined success in Silicon Valley (TechRepublic cover story) | download the PDF version

Image: Wikimedia Commons/Tumbenhaur

By Conner Forrest

Conner Forrest is an analyst for 451 Research. He was formerly a Senior Editor for TechRepublic.

Tesla Motors

LinkedIn

Palantir Technologies

SpaceX

Yelp

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