Age of Dreams

After EBAY acquired PayPal for US$1.5 billion in 2002, most of the approximately 600 PayPal members went their separate ways.

At that time, EBAY would have never imagined that what he got was sesame seeds and what he lost was watermelon.

The absolute value of PayPal is not very large, especially in places where the credit card economy and virtual economy are strong in Europe and the United States. Even after 10 years, its overall value still does not exceed US$10 billion.

But the group of people who created PayPal, after leaving PayPal, created the overall value of the company, but it exceeded 100 billion US dollars.

You read that right.

100 billion U.S. dollars.

Just a lot more.

If EBAY leaves this group of PayPal people, although I dare not say that they can create so much wealth, at least as an investment in a venture fund, they definitely get much more than PayPal itself.

At this time, Xiao Qi’s "Fortune" magazine published a famous article called "PayPal Meng. Bang". In fact, when it comes to the word "Meng Bang", it simply means to attract attention. , This faction has nothing to do with crime at all.

The article talks about how powerful the PayPal system is, how deep the relationship is, and how far-reaching it is to influence the U.S. network technology industry.

Let's take a look at how many companies we know these geniuses create.

The first is the Big Three of PayPal startups: Pete Thiel, Reed Hoffman and Elon Musk.

After Peter Thiel left PayPal, he founded a hedge fund. He also founded a venture capital company with many successful cases. Among them, the most frenzied, the most disgusting, and the one that is absolutely to be severely condemned is to invest $500,000 in a company called the company and obtain 10% of the stock.

You know, even now, even though it is not listed, Tang Mingxiang still obtained 10% of the shares for 2 billion US dollars. Not to mention the high price of 200 billion US dollars after the listing!

500,000 vs. 20 billion.

A full 100,000 times profit, what a huge profit is this?

With this hand alone, Pete Thiel can be listed as one of the world's greatest investors.

Next was Reed Hoffman, whom Xiao Qi had had business contact with, and he earned 210 million US dollars in cash, plus 100 million US dollars worth of shares.

But in fact, after waiting for the market in the previous life. The peak market value is 25 billion U.S. dollars, and Hoffman directly benefited more than 5 billion U.S. dollars, much more than it is now.

In addition to this, Hoffman also invested in Zynga, a social gaming company that creates sales miracles, a new generation of social networking site stars Tagged, and social music platform last.fm, and so on.

The company last.fm happened to be acquired by CBS for US$280 million this year. Hoffman also got more than 100 million U.S. dollars in income from it.

The market value of Zynga is as high as 20 billion U.S. dollars, and Tagged’s valuation in 2013 also exceeded 5 billion. Hoffman, who has a large share of shares in both, can be imagined in his previous life. Has broken through at least 10 billion US dollars.

It is with so many excellent and successful venture capitals that Hoffman has become one of the most successful angel investors in Silicon Valley. Many people who want to get investment come to him, so that his network in Silicon Valley even exceeds that of Pete Thiel. He was called the "King of Silicon Valley Networks" by the "New York Times".

The third Elon Musko has a bigger background, just say one, you can get to know him.

Have you heard of "Iron Man"?

Although the prototype of "Iron Man" is not Masco, but Robert Downey Jr's version of "Iron Man" is the prototype of this suave American super rich.

After he left PayPal, he used his own money to acquire two companies. One was an attempt to commercialize space travel, with huge R&D and commercial capabilities such as rocket launches, and the other was extremely popular in 2013. Tesla, an electric car manufacturer.

In the era of high oil prices, Tesla is almost considered to be the hope of future transportation. Even one of the founders, Larry Page, also mentioned in a public speech that if he died, he would not Will donate 23 billion US dollars of property to some charity, and will donate to people who can change the world, and this person refers to Masco!

The three giants are so brilliant and unattainable, but they also have very good people.

Rolov Bossa is a major shareholder of Square, a mobile payment company that has been hyped since 2012. He is also a major shareholder of the light blogging site Tumblr, with a net worth of more than two to three billion US dollars.

Max Lavchin, the founder of a social game company and chairman of the board of directors of Kaggle, a joint platform for top scientists, has a net worth of more than $1 billion.

David Sachs created Yammer, the world's largest corporate Weibo platform. In 2013, there were more than 500,000 companies with tens of millions of employees who have settled in, which is known as a more professional version.

Stopleman and Simmons created the largest store review website ~www.readwn.com~ and both have net worth of more than US$800 million.

Heli and Chen Shijun, the founders, sold them for $1.6 billion.

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Etc., etc.

The faction of PayPal is such a large number of talents, it can be comparable to the class of the superstars from Hong Kong Wireless TVB back then! ——Although the number of people is not so large, the influence on the entire Silicon Valley and the world is really no less than the influence of TVB stars on Hong Kong.

Xiao Qi had read this article in his previous life, and when he picked up Fortune again in his life, he saw the group of people in it, thought of their more brilliant achievements in the future, and suddenly remembered his own imminent wealth plan recently.

In order to implement this wealth plan, the teenager has just used an important figure in the "PayPal League Gang".

He is Reid Hoffman, the king of connections in Silicon Valley! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote recommended votes, monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users please go to read.)