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This Squabble May Sound Silly

This Squabble May Sound Silly

“This squabble” – always sounds silly…

Because a disagreement is either serious, or it’s not.

And – if we are being honest – most of the time – it’s not.

We get into our little niches and disagree about things most people have never even heard of.

I mean, who wants to hear me rant on the merits of the Solow Growth Model?

Listening to software engineers go at it over the best tool can be a riot though! 🤣

More fights broke out over the design of the company’s technology infrastructure. The Confinity team led by Levchin favored moving toward open-source software like Linux, while Musk championed Microsoft’s data-center software as being more likely to keep productivity high. This squabble may sound silly to outsiders, but it was the equivalent of a religious war to the engineers, many of whom viewed Microsoft as a dated evil empire and Linux as the modern software of the people.

-Ashley Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Amazon)

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Filed Under: Not BooksTagged With: #Fighting, #Software

The Paypal Mafia

The Paypal Mafia

Crazy to think about all the people that came to be known as the PayPal Mafia out of this.

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Ried Hoffman are the most recognized.

But two dozen others work all over Silicon Valley, making a network that would make anyone envious.

For example:

  • Roelof Botha – partner at Sequoia Capital
  • Chad Hurley – cofounder at YouTube
  • Russel Simmons – cofounder at Yelp
  • Premal Shah – cofounder at Kiva
  • Yishan Wong – CEO at Reddit

And that’s just a taste.

It’s bananas, actually.

The pleasantries between X.com and Confinity came to an abrupt end. The Confinity founders moved to an office down the street and, like X.com, began focusing their attention on Web and e-mail-based payments with their service known as PayPal.

-Ashley Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Amazon)

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Filed Under: PotpourriTagged With: #Networking, #Success

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