Dataiku – Paris has its own Paypal Mafia: How Exalead spawned dozens of startups

It is often said that nearly every company in the Silicon Valley can be traced back to PayPal, either through investment, employment, or the founding team coming from the pre-eBay PayPal team. A bold statement, most recently quantified by Pandodaily in this interactive map, but we quickly see that many of the household startup brands that we have come to love – Facebook, Yelp, Zynga, LinkedIn