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A look at how the conservative billionaires have leveraged their wealth and connections to positions of power that aid their ...
First Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and David Sacks upended America’s financial-services industry with an innovative Silicon Valley ...
JD Vance silence on Musk feud is turning heads as the vice president chooses not to defend Donald Trump in his explosive ...
A group of tech innovators who formed PayPal have quietly amassed a lot of power in Silicon Valley and in the U.S. government ...
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2025, pp. 22-24 Special Report By IF THERE WAS ever a word to define the current ...
A billionaire tech entrepreneur who used his wealth and influence in Silicon Valley to help Donald Trump win the presidency has deep connections to the new administration’s efforts to remake the ...
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 ...
These men are known as the “PayPal mafia” due to their involvement in the founding of the financial tech company PayPal, explains reporter Chris McGreal. McGreal, a former South Africa ...
As I’ve followed Elon Musk’s actions at DOGE, OMB, and other federal agencies this week and seen the influence of the PayPal Mafia in Trump’s Administration, I realize it’s two sides of the same coin.