创始人：埃伦•穆斯克，彼得•泰尔，马克斯•列夫琴，卢克•诺塞克和肯•霍威利

    1998年，穆斯克、泰尔、列夫琴、诺塞克和肯•霍威利等人联手创办了这家互联网支付服务商。在 eBay用户将其作为默认支付方式之后，贝宝（eBay）开始急剧扩张。意料之中的是，eBay随后斥资15亿美元收购了这家初创公司。这笔收购后来被证明是明智之举，因为贝宝现在仍然是eBay公司内部增长最快的业务。同时，贝宝的早期毕业生赢得“贝宝黑帮”这一绰号也是有原因的：穆斯克曾经梦想发明一种革命性的电动汽车，随后就真的创办了特斯拉汽车公司(Tesla)；泰尔基本上变为一位初创企业投资者，Facebook就是他的经典投资案例之一。

    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.