"""Early 2000. Our first official offsite. Every single person in our 20-person-ish crew went to this place, which had no cellphone or pager reception. The site went down and was dead for an hour."""

Hah

The copy of Schneier's Cryptography book is a nice touch.

In The Paypal Wars, the author claims that everyone at the company was obsessed with Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon.

That book is gold. And so are his other books. Who's up for a little Van Eck Phreaking? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_Phreaking)

Dang look at Steve Chen:) http://www.levchin.com/paypal-slideshow/3.html