Roelof Botha was raised in South Africa, but has become one of the most important people in the US tech space.

Pik Botha, a good man who worked for a bad government and later joined Mandela's ANC. Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, who served as South Africa’s apartheid-era Foreign Affairs Minister for 17 ...

Other co-founders of the company are Peter Thiel who is German-born but was brought to SA, David Sacks who was born in the country and Reolof Botha, the grandson of Pik Botha, who was the last ...