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David Sacks

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David Sacks · Technology & Engineering

What

Founding COO of PayPal and founder of Yammer, the workplace social network sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion.

When

25 May 1972, Cape Town, South Africa

Where

San Francisco, California, United States

Biography

David Sacks is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Founding COO of PayPal and founder of Yammer, the workplace social network sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion.

How & why

Born to a Jewish family in Cape Town and raised in Tennessee, David Sacks was the founding chief operating officer of PayPal — the operator of the 'PayPal mafia' — then founded Yammer, the workplace social network Microsoft bought for $1.2 billion in 2012. Through Craft Ventures he backed a generation of software companies, and he co-hosts one of technology's most-heard podcasts.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks

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Founding COO of PayPal and founder of Yammer, the workplace social network sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Sacks