Keith Rabois

Keith Rabois
Born	March 17, 1969 Edison, New Jersey
Occupation	Entrepreneur, Investor, Lawyer
Known for	Paypal, LinkedIn, Square, Yelp, Xoom, YouTube, Yammer, Palantir, Lyft, AirBnB, Eventbrite and Quora.

Keith Rabois is an American technology entrepreneur, executive and investor. He is widely known for his early-stage startup investments and his executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide and Square. Rabois invested in Yelp and Xoom prior to each company's initial public offering ("IPO") and sits on both companies' board of directors. He is considered a member of the PayPal Mafia, a group that includes PayPal co-founders Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Elon Musk.

Rabois was born on March 17, 1969 and raised in Edison, New Jersey.

Rabois studied political science as an undergraduate at Stanford University. He received his B.A. from Stanford 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 contributed to the libertarian newspaper known for challenging campus beliefs and mores. Rabois came to Thiel's attention after he was found outside an instructor's home, shouting homophobic slurs and the suggestion that the instructor "die of AIDS." A few of the contributors went on to join PayPal, a company Thiel co-founded in 1998.

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, a social network for people in professional occupations, as its Vice President for Business and Corporate Development. LinkedIn was founded by Reid Hoffman, also a former employee at PayPal and a member of the PayPal Mafia.

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