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Uber CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi
- Uber employees are most likely start the next class of hot, new startups, according to First Round Capital's "2018 State of Startups" report.
- The survey found that 23% of respondents believed Uber employees were the most likely to become the next generation of notable founders within the next five years.
- Around 16% thought Slack employees had the best shot, and around 15% thought they would come from Stripe.
- The most infamous group of alumni was the "PayPal Mafia," the group of PayPal founders and early executives that included the likes of Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, and Elon Musk.
Uber employees are most likely start the next class of hot, new startups.
That's according to First Round Capital's "2018 State of Startups" report that was released on Thursday.
The survey found that 23% of respondents believed Uber employees were the most likely to become the next generation of notable founders within the next five years.
Around 16% thought Slack employees (last valued at $7.1 billion) had the best shot of creating the "next big thing," and around 15% thought they would come from the online payments company, Stripe.
The most infamous group of alumni, of course, came from PayPal. Known as the "PayPal Mafia," this group of overachieving entrepreneurs included Peter Thiel (co-founder of $20 billion Palantir), Reid Hoffman (co-founder of LinkedIn, which Microsoft bought for $26.2 billion), Jeremy Stoppelman (co-founder of Yelp, valued at $3 billion on the public markets), and Elon Musk (co-founder of Tesla and founder of SpaceX).
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Only time will tell if Uber employees can become the next "PayPal Mafia." But with the company's S-1 filing last week, which could see it go public at a valuation as high as $120 billion, Uber current employees may be cashing out and starting their new projects quite soon.