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Steve Chen, former PayPal engineer who co-founded YouTube.Roelof Botha, former PayPal CFO who later became a partner and Senior Steward of venture capital firm Sequoia Capital.Scott Banister, early advisor and board member at PayPal.

Sacks, former PayPal COO who later founded and Yammer Musk later founded SpaceX, co-founded Tesla, Inc., co-founded OpenAI, Neuralink, founded The Boring Company, and became owner of Twitter, Inc.

Elon Musk, co-founder of Zip2, founder of X.com which merged with Confinity to form PayPal.

Max Levchin, founder and chief technology officer at PayPal.

Peter Thiel, PayPal founder and former chief executive officer who is sometimes referred to as the " don" of the PayPal Mafia.

Individuals whom the media refers to as members of the PayPal Mafia include: The term gained even wider exposure when a 2007 article in Fortune magazine used the phrase in its headline and featured a photo of former PayPal employees in gangster attire. This group of PayPal alumni became so prolific that the term PayPal Mafia was coined. They remained connected as social and business acquaintances, and a number of them worked together to form new companies and venture firms in subsequent years. The original PayPal employees had difficulty adjusting to eBay's more traditional corporate culture and within four years all but 12 of the first 50 employees had left. Later, X.com was renamed PayPal and purchased by eBay in 2002.

Originally, PayPal was a money-transfer service offered by a company called Confinity which was acquired by X.com in 1999. Most of the members attended Stanford University or University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign at some point in their studies. The " PayPal Mafia" is a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and/or developed additional technology companies such as Tesla, Inc., LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, Affirm, Slide, Kiva, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer. Elon Musk was not able to make the photoshoot due to a scheduling conflict but had an individual shot taken for the profile. Sacks, Peter Thiel, Keith Rabois, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, Roelof Botha, Russel Simmons. From left to right, top to bottom: Jawed Karim, Jeremy Stoppelman, Andrew McCormack, Premal Shah, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, David O. Members of the PayPal Mafia on Fortune magazine dressed in mafia-like attire.