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It Pays to Have Pals in the Valley

Tags: PayPal + Silicon Valley + YouTube + Ron Conway + Max Levchin + start-up

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Posted by MarcoPolo 1 year 11 months ago; via nytimes.com/2006/10/17/te...

Since 2002, when dozens of employees left PayPal after it was bought by eBay for $1.5 billion, those workers have gone on to start or join a new generation of Internet companies and other ventures. They have remained a tight-knit group, attending each other’s parties, helping to shape each other’s business plans, backing each other’s companies and recruiting each other for new projects.

Silicon Valley was largely built by networks of people and companies whose interlocking relationships help to spawn new start-ups. But the PayPal...

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