????創始人：埃倫?穆斯克，彼得?泰爾，馬克斯?列夫琴，盧克?諾塞克和肯?霍威利

????1998年，穆斯克、泰爾、列夫琴、諾塞克和肯?霍威利等人聯手創辦了這家互聯網支付服務商。在 eBay用戶將其作為默認支付方式之后，貝寶（eBay）開始急劇擴張。意料之中的是，eBay隨后斥資15億美元收購了這家初創公司。這筆收購后來被證明是明智之舉，因為貝寶現在仍然是eBay公司內部增長最快的業務。同時，貝寶的早期畢業生贏得“貝寶黑幫”這一綽號也是有原因的：穆斯克曾經夢想發明一種革命性的電動汽車，隨后就真的創辦了特斯拉汽車公司(Tesla)；泰爾基本上變為一位初創企業投資者，Facebook就是他的經典投資案例之一。

????Founders:Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery

????Musk, Thiel, Levchin, Nosek, and Howery launched the Internet-based payment service in 1998, which rapidly expanded after users made it their payment method of choice on eBay(EBAY, Fortune 500). No surprise then that eBay acquired the startup for $1.5 billion, which proved a wise move, as PayPal remains the fastest-growing business inside the company. Meanwhile, there's a reason early PayPal alum earned the name "PayPal mafia": Musk, for one, dreamed up and runs Tesla (TSLA), the disruptive electronic car company, while Thiel largely became a startup investor, channeling funds into businesses like Facebook.