Tosca Musk: The Third Sibling Who Built Her Own Streaming Empire
Elon Musk

Tosca Musk: The Third Sibling Who Built Her Own Streaming Empire

While Elon built rockets and Kimbal opened restaurants, their sister Tosca quietly built Passionflix — a streaming platform for romance t...

The PayPal Mafia: How One Startup Produced the Founders of YouTube, LinkedIn, and Tesla
PayPal Mafia

The PayPal Mafia: How One Startup Produced the Founders of YouTube, LinkedIn, and Tesla

Between 1999 and 2002, a group of PayPal employees worked together in Palo Alto. After eBay bought PayPal, they scattered and built YouTu...

What Silicon Valley Was Actually Like in 1995
Internet History

What Silicon Valley Was Actually Like in 1995

In 1995, Netscape went public, Amazon launched, eBay and Yahoo were founded, and a young Elon Musk was coding Zip2 in a Palo Alto office....

Peter Thiel's Zero to One: The Contrarian Philosophy That Built PayPal and Palantir
Founders

Peter Thiel's Zero to One: The Contrarian Philosophy That Built PayPal and Palantir

Peter Thiel taught a Stanford class in 2012 that became the book Zero to One. His core idea — competition is for losers, monopolies win —...

The Collison Brothers: Teenage Millionaires Who Built Stripe into a $95 Billion Company
Fintech

The Collison Brothers: Teenage Millionaires Who Built Stripe into a $95 Billion Company

Patrick was 19 and John was 17 when they sold their first company. Then they built Stripe — backed by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk — into th...

David Sacks: From PayPal COO to Hollywood to White House Crypto Czar
PayPal Mafia

David Sacks: From PayPal COO to Hollywood to White House Crypto Czar

David Sacks was PayPal's COO, produced a Golden Globe-nominated film, built Yammer and sold it to Microsoft for $1.2 billion, then became...

Stop Calling Every Startup Story a Garage Story
Silicon Valley

Stop Calling Every Startup Story a Garage Story

HP started in a garage. Apple started in a garage. Amazon started in a garage. Zip2 started in a 20-by-30-foot office with backed-up toil...

Max Levchin: The Ukrainian Refugee Who Co-Founded PayPal with $700
PayPal Mafia

Max Levchin: The Ukrainian Refugee Who Co-Founded PayPal with $700

Max Levchin arrived in Chicago in 1991 as a Jewish refugee from Ukraine with $700. Seven years later, he co-founded Confinity with Peter ...