First Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks upended America’s financial-services industry with an innovative Silicon Valley ...

A group of tech innovators who formed PayPal have quietly amassed a lot of power in Silicon Valley and in the U.S. government ...

A cryptocurrency promoter is set to helm the nation’s commodities regulator. An online-payment entrepreneur has been nominated to lead its space program. An electric-car, aerospace, and social ...

The term "PayPal Mafia" was first coined by Fortune magazine ... Their broader web of influence includes figures like Jim O'Neill, former CEO of Thiel's foundation, picked by Trump to be deputy ...

“Instead, what’s occurring now involves the influence of far fewer people: a very close-knit network of like-minded Trump supporters, especially if we focus on the PayPal Mafia, and the ...

From the stage there was jubilation over Mr Musk’s influence on the president-elect ... the incoming vice-president. “The PayPal Mafia’s takeover of the government is now complete ...

DONALD TRUMP’s selection late Thursday of the venture capitalist DAVID SACKS to serve as czar for cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence policy is poised to cement the influence of the VC ...

Now the conservative billionaires have leveraged the power, wealth and connections that grew out of their membership in the “PayPal Mafia” into positions of tremendous influence over a federal ...

But Musk, Thiel and Sacks have eagerly pursued political influence, and when President Donald Trump ... “He’s the godfather of the PayPal mafia.” Thiel landed in the Bay Area as a child in the mid-70s ...