Casey A. Gollan: Notes + Links

“What we need in New York is our own PayPal mafia,” says Caterina Fake, referring in jest to the band of early PayPal employees in Palo Alto who went on to found hugely successful ventures after the e-commerce business was sold to eBay in 2002.

“YouTube, LinkedIn, Yelp, Slide,” she says, ticking them off on her fingers. “We need a big company to go public, throw off employees that start their own companies and create a self-propagating, thriving scene like that out here.”