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Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 0:53 Max Levchin And the big innovation of PayPal was, what if we don't care about anonymity at all?
- ▶ 7:30 Max Levchin And, uh, in it, I think I ask you, like, tell me more about this Build Me Later thing, because I was working on something else while you were watching PayPal buying Build Me Later, and you sent me this really long, elaborate sort of,…
- ▶ 10:49 Max Levchin Even before PayPal, there was this wand that I think MasterCard and one of the gas, um, uh, refueling station networks produced this thing where you could, like, wave this wand next to a gas station, and payment is secured, and you can…
- ▶ 13:02 Erik Torenberg I feel like PayPal is pretty early, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:29 Max Levchin And my wife, who's pretty much always right, said, you know, the hardest you've ever worked and the happiest you were was during the anti-fraud days at PayPal. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:40 Max Levchin There's actually a failed project within PayPal called PayPal Shops, where I was trying to, personally, I built this thing where I was trying to re-market what you just bought. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:40 Max Levchin There's actually a failed project within PayPal called PayPal Shops, where I was trying to, personally, I built this thing where I was trying to re-market what you just bought.
- ▶ 48:23 Erik Torenberg I also want to ask a question about PayPal history. 7 times in the scene
The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
- ▶ 41:33 Erik Torenberg Kicked Elon out of PayPal or something.
Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- ▶ 24:02 Alex Rampell Like, Honey was a Chrome plug-in that got bought by four, four, four, four billion dollars.
Rocket Companies CEO: Here’s How to Fix the Housing Crisis
- ▶ 22:39 Varun Krishna You know, is that PayPal?
Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
- ▶ 44:04 Reid Hoffman and so you just can't, this is one of the reasons why at PayPal we had to change to, like, we, as you know, because you were close to us there, like, we had to change to a paid model because we're like, oh, look, we have exponentiating…
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 39:20 Keith Rabois By the way, this is the magic behind PayPal's revenue model.
- ▶ 45:55 Keith Rabois At PayPal, we had of the 254 employees we had in Mountain View when we went public to maybe three had any expertise in financial services at Square.
How Zapier Became Profitable in 3 Years and Scaled to $5B with Wade Foster
- ▶ 8:37 Wade Foster On one of these community forums, and he was asking for a PayPal HiRISE integration, so I was like, well, we have, that was actually, uh, PayPal and HiRISE were two of the first four that we built, so I was like, oh, we actually already… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:58 Wade Foster The thing we'd observed at that point in time was, um, you know, when you would go do, like, searches for integrations, if you were looking for, say, a PayPal iRise integration, what would pop up, and the search results would be, you know,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:34 Wade Foster Send it to my personal PayPal account. 2 times in the scene
Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid's Zach Perret
- ▶ 11:05 Zach Perret When you thought of financial software was mint, PayPal, and then like a few people had heard of them though.
- ▶ 20:02 Zach Perret We talked to companies from PayPal on down to, you know,
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 14:42 Chris Schroeder That's, that's a huge buy signal as you think about that talent because that experience, but you know, you have the new version of what you, we would have called some years ago in Silicon Valley, the PayPal effect. 3 times in the scene
Marketplace Breakout Strategies: Take Rates, Defensibility, Payments | Field Notes by Connie Chan
Marketplace Tactics: Metrics, Growth vs. Focus, Business Strategy | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 12:03 Deb Liu I think PayPal augmented that so you didn't feel like you had to research trust that there was a layer, but, and so it actually accelerated the growth. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:30 Deb Liu You know, when I go to DoorDash, I go to, because I have this favorite Mexican restaurant that was across the street from PayPal.
The Network State with Balaji Srinivasan
- ▶ 15:36 Balaji Srinivasan Well, actually Peter Thiel and PayPal, they kind of tried to do that.
Taking Crypto Beyond Volatility: Stablecoins
- ▶ 1:09 Sep Kamvar If you want to easily send money to a friend across the country, there's PayPal or Venmo.
Founding Stories: Anchorage
- ▶ 26:46 Diogo Mónica And one of the things that is already clear is that there's a lot of excitement of players such as Facebook and such as Stripe and such as PayPal coming into the space in a very meaningful way and participating in these opportunities…
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 21:48 Chris Dixon And it's not the code that's run by, it's not like code, you know, Google code controls stuff too, or PayPal does.
- ▶ 37:46 Chris Dixon It's no longer a web service that's connected to PayPal or Visa or something, and they can't take their money and screw it up or do whatever they want and make you get permission and make you get, you know, and like, and disenfranchise a…
What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- ▶ 17:30 Connie Chan Um, two, they're not technologists, so they don't have time to build their own blogs or their own websites and integrate PayPal or credit card payments into them.
a16z Podcast | How the Internet Happened
- ▶ 5:10 Chris Dixon Yeah, absolutely, like Flickr, and Delicious, and there were all these cool products, but also there were Zappos, and PayPal, and a bunch of other companies were actually still kind of going, and they weren't Google, but they were, you…
- ▶ 26:05 Brian McCullough The people that were successful, like the, a lot of the people that founded PayPal, you know, came from other .com stuff that they either flipped and sold or IPO'd or whatever, but then they didn't keep going
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security
- ▶ 13:12 Stina Ehrensvärd Fido Alliance is an open standards consortium, including Microsoft and PayPal and Bank of America and Visa.
a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- ▶ 11:39 Alex Rampell PayPal is about that.
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 15:03 Fred Ehrsam So in the same way that PayPal could never really become
- ▶ 27:50 Fred Ehrsam I think that the best example of this is thinking, okay, well, the value of PayPal is X, thus Bitcoin should at least be worth Y, or, you know, Uber is worth at least X, so a decentralized Uber token should at least be worth Y, or…
a16z Podcast | The Curious Case of the OpenTable IPO
- ▶ 0:10 Sonal Chokshi And joining us for this episode, we have A-Six and Z general partner, Jeff Jordan, who was president of PayPal at eBay before going to online restaurant reservation network, OpenTable, where as the CEO, he oversaw the company going public.
a16z Podcast | Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services
- ▶ 2:45 Brad Peterson Before NASDAQ, I was involved with PayPal, which is a consumer based, you know, product and, and Schwab, which is the investor side.
a16z Podcast | Welcome to the New Era of Commerce
- ▶ 17:31 Jeff Jordan I mean, uh, PayPal did a few deals in, uh, back at the beginning of the decade with the Facebook and, you know, felt like, okay, there you have money there.
a16z Podcast | The Movement of Money
- ▶ 23:22 Alex Rampell I mean, knowing that I will get paid quickly and promptly, it just, it boggles my mind that eBay started as eBay without the PayPal part built in. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 32:32 Chris Dixon It's sort of like, you know, eBay and PayPal when they split, it was like, seventy-five billion dollars before the split, and then, like, 85 after the split.
a16z Podcast | Getting Network Effects
- ▶ 0:42 Sonal Chokshi He was previously the CEO at Open Table, which is why the network effects theme is particularly strong here, and president at PayPal and SPP at eBay before that, and his board seats include a lot of our companies that have network effects…
- ▶ 5:00 Jeff Jordan And I'm like, I'm, it just came out of eBay and PayPal.
- ▶ 11:40 Jeff Jordan I've worked with some great network effects businesses, you know, eBay, PayPal, Airbnb, you know, Pinterest.
a16z Podcast | Fintech Revolution or Evolution?
- ▶ 19:49 Alex Rampell Amazon probably has more cards on file than PayPal has cards on file. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Banking on the Blockchain
- ▶ 25:55 William Mougayar And you're being paid on Eventbrite, you connect your bank account, and PayPal is used as a processor, and the money is deposited in your bank account, but you haven't visited the bank. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | E-commerce, Payments, & More in India's Evolving Retail Landscape
- ▶ 25:08 Kunal Bahl And so what we did with Free Charge is very similar to what Alibaba did with Alipay or, or eBay did with PayPal, where Snapdeal became the anchor merchant for Free Charge, which has a wallet, 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Hall of Fame Football Meets Venture Capital
- ▶ 5:41 Jeff Jordan So eBay, PayPal, OpenTable as an operator, and now Airbnb, Pinterest, and Instacart as an investor.
a16z Podcast | Building Affirm, and Why Max Levchin Has Watched Seven Samurai 100-Plus Times
- ▶ 0:04 Michael Copeland Max Levchin helped build PayPal.
- ▶ 1:41 Max Levchin Spend most of your formative years building a payments company that became the payments company in the internet, and that was a very serious task, and you fought fraud, and it was great.
- ▶ 19:59 Angela Strange You're known for lots of things, but one of the, one of the most, uh, well-known is just fraud at PayPal, and world-class fraud-fighting team, which really enabled PayPal to grow into what it is today, and you've gotten some of the band… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:26 Max Levchin And then I started building a team at PayPal.
a16z Podcast | When Banking Works Like My Smartphone
- ▶ 0:44 Tavit Henrikos You know, classically you would have gone to a bank or Western Union or maybe PayPal to do it, but we're just offering it in a cheaper, faster, better, and more transparent way.
a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- ▶ 5:13 Sonal Chokshi So the mafia that sort of results from like a PayPal mafia or an eBay mafia.
a16z Podcast | Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne
- ▶ 25:14 Michael Copeland So PayPal, um, for merchants to, to use.
a16z Podcast | Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
- ▶ 9:51 Chris Dixon Uh, PayPal is extremely, I mean, the way PayPal deals with many issues is they simply block about half the world from transacting, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:10 Benedict Evans It was like, oh, yeah, and this was like the idea for how you were gonna get people to be comfortable putting their credit cards in, and it turned out that the answer was, you just put your credit card in, and the, um, credit card…
a16z Podcast | Building the Right Technical Advisory Board
- ▶ 0:59 Michael Copeland Arnie Goldberg from PayPal, and A-sixteen Z general partner Peter Levine.
a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
a16z Podcast | Bitcoin, Greece, and What’s Next for Cryptocurrency
- ▶ 8:56 Brian Armstrong Um, that have something to do with Bitcoin, and, um, there's been about, well, let's see, there's about 6000 total to date, which is outpacing the number of GitHub repositories for other common payment systems like PayPal.
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 25:28 Marc Andreessen Basically makes it easy, easy to use Bitcoin as PayPal makes it easy to use dollars. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Marketplace Rules
- ▶ 20:04 Jeff Jordan I contrast that with, uh, you know, the, the most of the fraud on eBay and PayPal was organized crime, typically out of Eastern Europe.
a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
- ▶ 21:04 Benjamin Heinemann Some of the biggest users out there are companies like Twitter, uh, Airbnb, HubSpot, eBay, and, uh, and, and PayPal are using it for running things.
a16z Podcast | Where's My Stuff? -- The Lowdown on Logistics and Ops
- ▶ 37:33 Jeff Jordan I mean, when I was at eBay and PayPal, I mean, hundreds of millions of dollars were running out the door, and so it was, it was hand-to-hand combat.
- ▶ 43:15 Jeff Jordan so I, I, when I went from PayPal to OpenTable, I was like, hey, someone should run the, you know, the, the financial planning team should run a model on this.
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 32:46 Balaji Srinivasan So for example, Google rankings, Apple's app store, Gmail spam filtering, PayPal and eBay fraud protection, Amazon reviews, um, these things already happening in the cloud, massive scale marketplaces where all the checks and balances, rare…
a16z Podcast | When Fantasy Football and Crowdfunding Collide
- ▶ 5:24 James Beshara Um, think of it kind of like, um, just a button that takes you to a group, kind of like a group PayPal is, uh, an easy way to think about it.
a16z Podcast | Beyond Bitcoin -- The Blockchain
- ▶ 24:17 unnamed speaker So what do you think of a company like PayPal incorporating this kind of technology when they basically have the consume, the consumer space already in that area? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The (Definite) Optimism of Peter Thiel
- ▶ 2:48 Marc Andreessen Um, I would like to start, though, by going, ah, back in history, um, to one of my favorite topics, which is, which is PayPal, ah, which is the company that Peter founded and ran.
- ▶ 2:57 Marc Andreessen Um, ah, the PayPal story is amazing. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:37 Marc Andreessen What was, what was the view inside the company, and what, how were you and Elon kind of processing through this? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:41 Marc Andreessen And then took the company public? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:30 Marc Andreessen So, um, so of course, PayPal now is famous for the PayPal mafia. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:19 Marc Andreessen I'd like to start with, um, what was, what was Elon like to work with at PayPal?
a16z Podcast | Apple Takes on Payments and Your Wrist
- ▶ 14:16 Michael Copeland Is it like PayPal? 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | China and Tech
- ▶ 1:54 Connie Chan Um, Alibaba is also a cloud product that they have, as well as, uh, Alipay, which is somewhat similar to PayPal here in the States.
a16z Podcast | The State of the Bitcoin Ecosystem, and a Theory on Satoshi
- ▶ 6:08 Balaji Srinivasan On Facebook, you'd have some wallets and be used for paying friends, like a Facebook, PayPal, with Bitcoin. 2 times in the scene
Debating Crypto: Katie Haun vs. Paul Krugman
- ▶ 14:21 Katie Haun I think you would consider PayPal a banking application. 2 times in the scene
3 Common Myths People Have About Crypto
- ▶ 28:23 Catherine (Katie) Haun Now, to make this even easier to understand, think about PayPal or Ven, you could use any service, a bank, Venmo, PayPal. 5 times in the scene
Distribution, Channel & Partnerships
- ▶ 11:42 Alex Rampell It's a junkie or it's PayPal because there was so relevant for us. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:51 Alex Rampell Like we, we really scoured the market and sure we would have rather done a deal with PayPal, but it just wasn't, PayPal was growing too quickly. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:02 Alex Rampell And we really wanted to get PayPal. 5 times in the scene
The Oral History of TrialPay -- Obstacles and Opportunities in Payments
- ▶ 15:09 Alex Rampell oh, eBay spun out PayPal, and then HP and HPE separated.
Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs
- ▶ 3:43 Alex Rampell If Alice is transferring money to Bob, might use PayPal.
What Happens When Mobile (Really) Hits the Wallet
- ▶ 4:34 Alex Rampell So let's just say I use PayPal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:06 Alex Rampell So PayPal, Visa Checkout, MasterCard MasterPass, um, or even, uh, MCX, which is now no more. 4 times in the scene
Marketplaces
- ▶ 18:28 Jeff Jordan It seemed incredibly obvious to me that eBay with the community and PayPal with the payments should support a services business.