Do you know what the PayPal Mafia is?
It is not a criminal extortion scheme using the famous payment system, but the name given to the small group of people who worked at PayPal in its early days.
The name comes from the fact that, over time, these brilliant young people created the most important companies in the digital economy 💰💰
I will mention the most famous (the image provides the rest): Elon Musk (a name that says it all), Chad Hurley, together with Jawed Karim and Steve Chen, founded YouTube, Reid Hoffman created LinkedIn, and Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman founded Yelp.
Imagine what the work environment at PayPal must have been like: tired, complaining people, with no interests or enthusiasm?
Or lively people brimming with ideas, curiosity and a desire to get things done?
When evaluating a job, context is essential: relationships with colleagues, the company atmosphere, the desire to share and people's curiosity to explore new areas of knowledge.
There are countless examples like PayPal.
Having intelligent, curious, knowledgeable colleagues who want to get things done will always raise our level!
It confirms the rule that says we are the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with (and our colleagues are certainly among them).