The secrets of the PayPal mafia (and Elon musk)

Name: The secrets of the PayPal mafia (and Elon musk)
Uploaded: 2023-12-27T21:27:02+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Ryan Shank
Description: In this brief interview excerpt, Ryan Shank explains his approach to helping a creator named Don develop a personal brand and business centered around…

27 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this brief interview excerpt, Ryan Shank explains his approach to helping a creator named Don develop a personal brand and business centered around video content he loves. He emphasizes that the goal isn’t just to make Don famous for the team’s benefit, but to align with Don’s own interests and motivations. Shank then broadens the discussion to a larger pattern he observes in successful companies: the existence of early‑employee networks—often dubbed “mafias”—such as the PayPal mafia or the Morning Brew mafia (including the founder of Beehive). He notes that individuals who join these companies early often go on to achieve significant personal success, suggesting that nurturing early talent can create future industry leaders.

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It's like ego talking, but like help Don grow into this just like monster, like his own brand and just build like his own like business around what he like loves and video stuff, you know? Like that would be so sick. That's like an amazing perspective, one. Like to think like it's not that you want Don to like blow us up and make us big. Yeah. Like yes, we want that, but it's like also like what does Don care about? And yeah, yeah. But not just Don, like even the, I mean the super early people that are coming in now. Cause if you look at all these like great companies, they all have like like what they call mafias. There's like the PayPal mafia, and they have like a Morning Brew mafia with like the founder of Beehive. You see these people that were like early at these companies that ended up doing really well, and then them individually becoming like big themselves, like