And they all either have Peter Thiel's money in them or they're run by friends of Peter Thiel.
There's just this really long list of really important kind of influential companies that came out of Silicon Valley at the same time. It finds its way into YouTube, Yelp, LinkedIn. So the PayPal Mafia finds its way into SpaceX, Elon Musk's company.
And so that group includes Thiel and some of his co-founders, you know, Max Levchin and Elon Musk. It was a group of people, you know, an informal collection of entrepreneurs and investors - basically led by Peter Thiel - that were moving money around and doing some really interesting and, you know, in retrospect, amazing things with it.
But the thing that makes Peter Thiel kind of really interesting and who, especially back then, you know, from the perspective of a tech reporter in the mid-2000s was this thing called the PayPal Mafia. I think, most famously, he's the first investor in Facebook. You know, he invested in a bunch of well-known companies. You mentioned the kind of top line biography. But what do you mean that he was hanging in and over these stories? And we're going to talk about his career some. You write that, when you were a tech reporter, that Thiel seemed to hang behind or above or somewhere in the middle of almost every story I reported about the tech industry. His new book is "The Contrarian: Peter Thiel And Silicon Valley's Pursuit Of Power." Well, Max Chafkin, welcome to FRESH AIR. His work has also appeared in Vanity Fair, Inc and The New York Times Magazine. Max Chafkin is a features editor and tech reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek.
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