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 ...

The D.C. ‘PayPal Mafia’ Goes Beyond Elon Musk. A Guide to Silicon Valley’s Hostile Takeover.© Illustration by Barron's The D.C. ‘PayPal Mafia’ Goes Beyond Elon Musk.

As Elon Musk dominates Washington, there’s another wave of tech appointments still to come. They’ll influence policy around cryptocurrencies, healthcare, China, and more.

The PayPal Mafia: A Network of Titans By the age of 32, David Sacks had not only built PayPal but also had the likes of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Jack Dorsey in his contact list.

There’s the PayPal Mafia, the group of early employees of the digital payments company that includes Thiel and Musk. There’s the conservative student paper, the Stanford Review.

A founding member of the “PayPal Mafia” is the man that Donald Trump has chosen to help America take over Greenland. Ken Howery, who formerly served as the chief financial officer of the ...

From his days at Stanford and PayPal with the likes of Elon Musk, David Sacks is another Silicon Valley conservative in Trump's new orbit.

T he members of the so-called Paypal Mafia, who founded and grew the payments startup at the turn of the 21st century, have gone on to become the leading lights of Silicon Valley.