Names you want to know if you are starting out in Silicon Valley

PayPal Mafia

Elon Musk (Tesla, Space X, Solar City), Peter Thiel (Palantir, Founders Fund, author of Zero to One, you can read Blake Master’s actual course notes here.), Max Levchin (new start up Affirm), Reid Hoffman (Linked In), David Sacks (Yammer, former Zenefits CEO), Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp), David McClure — fired (500 Startup), Steve Chen/Jawed Karim/Chad Hurley (Youtube), Jason Portnoy (Subtraction Capital, he was not part of the Paypal mafia but he worked as an intern and worked his way up to CFO.)

image via fortune

Ex Twitter — Jack Dorsey (Square), Ev Williams (Medium!), Former BFF now enemies for life.

Slack — Stewart Butterfield

Stripe — Patrick Collison

Airbnb — Brian Chesky

Lyft — John Zimmer

Twilio — Jeff Lawson

Salesforce — Marc Benioff

Y Combinator — Sam Altman

Paul Graham

Draper University — Tim Draper

500 Startups — David Mcclure

Youtube — Susan Wojcicki

23 and me — Anne Wojcicki

With Sergey Brin ex husband

Facebook COO — Sheryl Sandberg

former Google CEO — Eric Shimidt

Current Google CEO — Sundar Pichai

former Yahoo CEO — Marissa Mayer (husband — Zack Bogue, Data Collective)

Top VCs : USV (Fred Wilson), Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greylock, Benchmark, True Ventures, First Round, Accel, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures (Vinod Khosla), Google Ventures, Lowercase (Chris Sacca — Shark Tank)

Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto (Where the VCs (“vests”) work and you will start your pilgrimage as a founder here.)

image via Silicon Valley the show. Watch Season 1 Episode 1 — “Cap Table”!

Rosewood Hotel on Sand Hill Road (Where VCs go for happy hour)

If you are still hungry for more, read Fred Wilson’s daily diary and listen to http://thisweekinstartups.com/.

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