Profiting from the PayPal connection

PayPal founders Max Levchin and Peter Thiel estimate that their ex-PayPal colleagues run $30 billion worth of businesses. Here's a snapshot of what these guys are up to now.

Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman
Companies founded or co-founded: LinkedIn

Investors: Peter Theil, Keith Rabois

Companies he's invested in: Digg, Flickr, Last.FM, Ning, Technorati



Correction: An earlier version of this gallery listed Mozilla and Kiva as Hoffman investments. He sits on the board of directors of both non-profits, but has not made a monetary investment in either one of them.

Peter Thiel

Max Levchin

Elon Musk

Reid Hoffman

Roelof Botha

David Sacks

Keith Rabois

Jawed Karim

Chad Hurley, Steve Chen

Jeremy Stoppelman, Russel Simmons

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