The PayPal Mafia's government/intelligence ties run deep. Thiel's Palantir literally works with CIA/NSA. He sits on Facebook's board and was Trump advisor. Musk gets billions in government contracts through SpaceX/Tesla while pushing "free speech" narratives.

Hoffman (LinkedIn) pushes social credit systems. Botha (Sequoia) funds surveillance tech. They all share Bilderberg/WEF connections.

The "startup success" story is really about leveraging government partnerships and data harvesting at scale. They didn't just get lucky - they got connected to the right power structures early.