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    Peter Thiel's nemesis makes venture capital hall of fame

    Sequoia Capital's revamped website shows a gallery of the prestigious venture capital firm's greatest investment hits: the Google boys, looking like a nice gay couple; Steve Jobs watching benignly while Steve Wozniak works on an early Apple computer; Chad Hurley and the other Youtube guy; and other Valley legends. Who's that in the middle, representing Paypal, the online payments company sold to eBay for $1.5bn? Not Peter Thiel, or his co-founder at Paypal, but a man who haunts them both: Elon Musk, one-time favorite of Sequoia's Mike Moritz, a charismatic hustler who traded his own lame online bank into a half share in Paypal, a dilution which denied Peter Thiel his first $100m. First Musk takes the company; now the credit. Cruel. For an enlarged screengrab:


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