The Peel(@ThePeelPod):.@kevinhartz once told me what made the PayPal Mafia so special that he invested 100% of the cash from his first company in the seed round: "The things they did to win were just above and beyond. They outsmarted everyone on every plane when they were expected to not be able to do that. And when you look at the caliber of all those people, they're all extraordinary in their own right. It was a special period having them all together PayPal launched at the end of '98, pivoted a few times, and really took off in '99. When they were really cranking, it was '99, 2000. The internet economy was in overdrive. You could do no wrong. And then the bubble burst. They were counted out. People thought they would go out of business. When in fact, it was a very substantial business. It was growing so fast, and doing so well."

2026.10.25 23:18

.@kevinhartz once told me what made the PayPal Mafia so special that he invested 100% of the cash from his first company in the seed round: "The things they did to win were just above and beyond. They outsmarted everyone on every plane when they were expected to not be able to do that. And when you look at the caliber of all those people, they're all extraordinary in their own right. It was a special period having them all together PayPal launched at the end of '98, pivoted a few times, and really took off in '99. When they were really cranking, it was '99, 2000. The internet economy was in overdrive. You could do no wrong. And then the bubble burst. They were counted out. People thought they would go out of business. When in fact, it was a very substantial business. It was growing so fast, and doing so well."

Alexandr Wang@alexandr_wang

2026.10.25 17:43

THE SCALE MAFIA one of the most special parts of starting a company is watching the people you fought and bled with in the early days go out and change the world. the Scale crew was supernatural. @scale_ai was one of the first companies to IOI and IMO-maxx, and the magic of Scale was that all of these geniuses gave a shit and ran through walls. it's no wonder that the Scale mafia is the first true mafia of the modern tech era. just to name a few: - cognition founder @stevenkplus1 & president @russelljkaplan - modal founder @akshat_b - tech & science advisor to POTUS @mkratsios47 - claude code head of product @_catwu - kpcb partners @LM_Braswell & @nayakkayak - bun founder @jarredsumner - tbd head of product @lindugong - netic founder @melisatokmak - cobot founder @BradPorter_ - secureframe founder @shravvmehtaa - paramount skydance cfo @DennisKCinelli - thinking machines gc lauren lennon - partner at greylock @sophia_luo_ - liquid ai coo jeffrey li - gallatin ai founder @agilemofo - tbd safety @_julianmichael_ - center for ai safety president @devindkim [photo courtesy the beautiful wedding of @thenateherman (who in many ways was a cofounder of Scale) and @ChristinaG325]

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