I think the canonical example (but not necessarily the first) is the "PayPal Mafia" [1]. Many early PayPal employees went on to found successful companies in th

I think the canonical example (but not necessarily the first) is the "PayPal Mafia" [1]. Many early PayPal employees went on to found successful companies in the wake of the dot-com bust at the end of the nineties. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia