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America's largest bank by assets, formed by the 2000 merger of J.P. Morgan & Co. and Chase Manhattan, led since 2005 by CEO Jamie Dimon.
American entrepreneur and co-founder of Eventbrite and Xoom, early PayPal investor, and angel investor in Twitter, Airbnb, and Pinterest.
American digital payments company co-founded by Max Levchin and Peter Thiel as Confinity in 1998 — merged with Elon Musk's X.com in 2000 — which created the dominant internet payment platform and whose alumni (the PayPal Mafia) went on to found or fund Tesla, SpaceX, YouTube, LinkedIn, Yelp, Yammer, and more.
Patrick and John Collison's Dublin-founded, San Francisco-headquartered online payments company — providing the payment infrastructure for a large share of internet commerce — notable for its developer-first culture and the quality of its API documentation.