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Fortune
Jessica Mathews

Inside Peter Thiel’s powerful Silicon Valley network which started with a student paper

Pixelated image of Peter Thiel giving a thumbs up. (Credit: Photo illustration by Fortune; Eva Marie Uzcategui—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Forget about the PayPal Mafia. There’s another elite network in Silicon Valley you need to know about—and it all started at a student newspaper called the Stanford Review.

The conservative student newspaper cofounded by Peter Thiel in 1987 has been riling up the left-leaning Stanford community for more than three decades. But it’s also quietly become one of the surest paths to an enviable job in Silicon Valley.

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