Certain members of the PayPal Mafia—a network of early PayPal founders and managers—have emerged as power players in Trump's second administration.

The “PayPal Mafia” that ousted Elon Musk as CEO of the peer-to-peer payments site also helped save his rocket-launching company SpaceX as it teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, according to a ...

‘PayPal Mafia’: How power trio of Musk, Thiel and Sacks rode Silicon Valley startup success into Trump White House Billionaires’ business interests closely tied to government ...

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

Elon Musk was ousted by the so-called "PayPal Mafia" from his role as chief executive of the payment platform while he was on vacation for his honeymoon over two decades ago, according to a new ...

We’ll link to his piece, “How the roots of the 'PayPal mafia' extend to apartheid South Africa.” And we’ll do Part 2 of this conversation and post it online at democracynow.org.

“The PayPal Mafia’s takeover of the government is now complete, so good work on that,” quipped Aaron Levie, the founder of Box, a cloud-storage firm (and a Democratic donor decidedly out of ...

‘PayPal Mafia’: How power trio of Musk, Thiel and Sacks rode Silicon Valley startup success into Trump White House Billionaires' business interests closely tied to government ...

The PayPal Mafia—a network of early PayPal employees and affiliates—has emerged as a powerful player in Trump's second administration.

News; Nation ‘PayPal Mafia’: How power trio of Musk, Thiel and Sacks rode Silicon Valley startup success into Trump White House June 10, 2025 Updated Tue., June 10, 2025 at 12:49 p.m.

The PayPal Mafia power trio have major financial interests in companies whose success rests in large part on government contracts and federal regulations. A White House memo said Sacks and Craft, ...