the reason the paypal guys are so iconic is because they were the last people to get rich from the internet boom, there were hundreds of Elon Musk types in the late 90s, the problem is the dot-com boom was like Crypto and 99% of people lost their millions and billions in scam companies and never recovered, a great example is Ted Turner, you can even see in early family guy episodes, he was the boomer Elon Musk, then he put all his money in AOL, the market crashed and he went from one of the richest men in the world, to worth only 2 billion dollars, and while thats still a lot, its not FU money like what elon has. most of it tied up in stocks or real estate. And he was lucky, most other billionaires got creamed by the internet bust, its why Warren Buffet said to stay away from that stuff.
bank of america agrees.