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‘Convoy Mafia’: Alumni from trucking marketplace company lead new startups in Seattle

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“Convoy Mafia,” as it’s referred to by its members, is a nod to the PayPal Mafia , a group of former employees at the payments company who went on to launch companies such as SpaceX (Elon Musk), LinkedIn (Reid Hoffman), and Palantir (Peter Thiel).

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Manny Vellon, 1960-2020: Towering figure in Seattle tech was an engineer at heart

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Manny Vellon was CTO of Seattle-based technology experience design firm Level 11. Rob Shurtleff , who helped to recruit Vellon to HP, remembered him in a note to their former colleagues as “the very tall Cuban American wizard developer we hired out of college back in the HP150 days.” ” Not a venture capitalist.