48% relevant, context: com side, Elon Musk recruited a wide range of technical and business personnel, including many that were critical to the combined company's success, such as Amy Klement, Sal Giambanco, Roelof Botha 6 of Sequoia Capital, Sanjay Bhargava and Jeremy Stoppelman.
YouTube (now owned by Google) was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, all of whom were early employees at PayPal. YouTube is funded by Sequoia Capital. Roelof Botha, the former CFO of PayPal, is a partner of Sequoia Capital who sits on YouTube's board of directors.
com/science/discoveries/news/1999/07/20958.  ^ Roelof Botha - Venture Capitalist - Sequoia Capital ^ PayPal: An alternate history according to Elon Musk ^ a b http://www.

49% relevant, context: 3 Confinity was founded in December 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, and Ken Howery, initially as a Palm Pilot payments and cryptography company. 4 X.com was founded by Elon Musk in March 1999, initially as an Internet financial services company.
At Confinity, many of the initial recruits were alumni of The Stanford Review, also founded by Peter Thiel, and most early engineers hailed from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recruited by Max Levchin. On the X.com side, Elon Musk recruited a wide range of technical and business personnel, including many that were critical to the combined company's success, such as Amy Klement, Sal Giambanco, Roelof Botha 6 of Sequoia Capital, Sanjay Bhargava and Jeremy Stoppelman.
com were also founded by David O. Sacks. SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk, who founded X.com and served as the CEO following its merger with PayPal.
Tesla Motors' principal owner and newly minted CEO / Chairman of the Board is Elon Musk. HourTown was founded by Ryan Donahue, an early product designer at PayPal.
^ Roelof Botha - Venture Capitalist - Sequoia Capital ^ PayPal: An alternate history according to Elon Musk ^ a b http://www.screw-paypal.com/history.html ^ http://www.