
Keith Rabois
Keith Rabois is an American technology entrepreneur, executive, and investor. He is widely known for his early-stage startup investments and executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide and Square. In addition, Rabois invested in Yelp and Xoom before each company's initial public offering ("IPO") and sat on both companies' boards of directors.
He is considered a member of the PayPal Mafia. This group includes PayPal co-founders Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman, Elon Musk, and PayPal employee and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim. Additionally, Rabois has invested in YouTube, Palantir, Lyft, Airbnb, Eventbrite, Wish, and The Org.
Rabois was born on March 17, 1969, and raised in Edison, New Jersey. Rabois studied political science as an undergraduate at Stanford University, receiving his B.A. in 1991 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1994. While at Stanford, he became acquainted with Peter Thiel, then-editor and co-founder of The Stanford Review.
Rabois later contributed to the libertarian newspaper. Rabois was one of several students reprimanded for shouting homophobic slurs outside an instructor's home, including suggesting that the instructor "die of AIDS." Rabois stated that the incident was designed to challenge Stanford's rules on student speech. Thiel later defended Rabois in his book, The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus. He clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and worked at Sullivan & Cromwell.
Rabois served as Executive Vice President, Business Development, Public Affairs, and Policy at PayPal from November 2000 to November 2002. Between January 2005 and May 2007, Rabois worked at LinkedIn as its vice president for Business and Corporate Development. Reid Hoffman founded LinkedIn, was a former employee at PayPal, and was a member of the PayPal Mafia. After some unsuccessful ventures, in 2010, Rabois joined Square, a company that provides an electronic payment service, as its Chief Operating Officer.
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The Score Takes Care of Itself



1944



7 Powers



Loonshots



The Hard Thing About Hard Things



Atomic Habits



World War 3.0



The Upside of Stress



The Checklist Manifesto



Quirky



Zero to One



Amusing Ourselves to Death



An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope



Andy Grove



Architects of the Web



Becoming Steve Jobs



Behind the Cloud



High Output Management



Why We Sleep



The Innovator's Solution



Swimming Across



Churchill



Creative Selection



Cultural Strategy



Deep Medicine



Range



Drawing Life



Sapiens



Skin in the Game



Get Back in the Box



Go To



Googled



Hackers & Painters



How Google Works



How Not to Be Wrong



In the Company of Giants



Insanely Simple



Naked Statistics



On Intelligence



Planet Google



The Founders



Powerful



Predictably Irrational



Spent



Steve Jobs & the Next Big Thing



Return to the Little Kingdom



Revolution in the Valley



Rocket Men



Talent Wins



The 80/20 Principle



The Breakthrough



The Art of the Start 2.0



The Book of Why



The City in History



The Curse of the Mogul



The Method Method



The Monk and the Riddle



The Intel Trinity



The Joy of Movement



The Little Kingdom



The Model Thinker



The Organized Mind



The New New Thing



The Success Equation



The Vision of the Anointed



The Search



The Splendid and the Vile



The Wires of War



Troublemakers



Think Like a Rocket Scientist



Trade-Off



Viral Loop



Warfighting



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