It Pays to Have Pals in Silicon Valley - New York Times

Small world...

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.

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Source: It Pays to Have Pals in Silicon Valley - New York Times