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The Traitorous Eight. The PayPal Mafia. Any other cohorts famous in Silicon Valley for producing disproportionate excellence?
by georgewsinger 10y ago
The Traitorous Eight. The PayPal Mafia. Any other cohorts famous in Silicon Valley for producing disproportionate excellence?
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoMaybe BBN? In videogames, Starbreeze seems to have some pretty consistant ex-employees. And, of course, anybody who was at id Software between 1993 and 1998 or so basically is assumed to be great, regardless of if they are.
- baristaGeek 10y agoFormer Facebook founders and employees have started Asana, Quora, Cloudera, Path, etc.
- cududa 10y agoQuora is almost 10 years old and has no business model. Asana is profitable but no longer growing. No knowledge on Cloudera. And Path was a bust.
- matchagaucho 10y agoQuip (~$750M exit to Salesforce)