The PayPal Mafia includes tech titans like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Reid Hoffman. Here's where its members are now.

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Peter Thiel, left, and Elon Musk, are two members of the so-called "PayPal Mafia."

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Perplexity AI CEO shares his advice to startup founders on building a team

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Aravind Srinivas, cofounder and CEO of Perplexity AI, recently spoke at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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He helped Twitter and Instagram outstrip competitors. For his hat trick, Kevin Weil will try to save OpenAI from itself.

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Kevin Weil showed no sign of the heat when he took to the stage at the Marriott Marquis in downtown San Francisco on an unseasonably sweaty early October morning.

AMD CEO Lisa Su says she never met her distant cousin Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang until later in their careers

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su are distant cousins, but the two never crossed paths at a family dinner, Su said.

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Some health insurers are removing executive bios from their websites after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare's CEO

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United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot in New York City on December 4.

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Amazon isn't seeing enough demand for AMD's AI chips to offer them via its cloud

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AWS logo at re:Invent 2024

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YouTuber Connor Franta accuses business partners of siphoning more than $1 million from Heard Well. They deny it.

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Connor Franta is accusing his business partners at Heard Well in a lawsuit of siphoning money from their company. The business partners deny it.

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Amazon's AI chip executive tells BI why Nvidia is not a competitor, how Anthropic helps, and what AMD needs

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Gadi Hutt, AWS Annapurna Labs's senior director of customer and product engineering
Gadi Hutt, AWS Annapurna Labs' senior director of customer and product engineering.

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OpenAI's new o1 model sometimes fights back when it thinks it'll be shut down and then lies about it

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company's o1 model is its "smartest" yet. That also comes with risk.

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Court upholds TikTok ban in US

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A court upheld a federal law that forces TikTok in the US to sell to an American company or face a ban.

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